Chapter 24: The Darkest
"She's ...... Pregnant?"
Song Ying covered her lips in surprise, and Song Haoran frowned directly.
Many times, people's attitudes towards pregnant women are a little subtle.
This woman may be heinous, this woman may be hated by everyone, but when there is a little life brewing in this woman's body, her situation will be a little different.
She may not be forgiven, but the little life born in her body is innocent.
Spotless, pure life will always be loved.
We respect a pregnant woman because of her greatness in giving birth to life.
"This is really cruel!" Song Ying's face was pale, and Paul, who was only seven or eight years old on the stage, and the little life in the belly of the red-clothed Joan, among the two, only one was allowed to live.
In an instant, when Song Ying looked at Alaya again, this blue-haired and blue-eyed girl no longer made her feel delicate and cute, but inexplicably afraid.
Because it was all done under her will, it was she who prescribed such a brutal struggle for survival, and it was she who created this cruel situation with her own hands.
The red-clothed Joan on the steel platform stood dumbfounded at this moment as if he had been struck by lightning.
She lowered her head, her palms caressing her abdomen, her hair covering her face, her joy and disgust could not be seen, only the slightly trembling shoulders seemed so clear.
"It can't be like this! It can't be like this!!"
Song Ying suddenly looked excited, walked quickly in front of Luo Qiu, and grabbed his arm, "This is unreasonable, this is not reasonable at all! Think of a way! Think of a way!"
"I have already said that I will not interfere in the work of Alayya. Luo Qiu shook his head, "Since you said it, you can only wait for the result." ”
"But that's weird...... It's so weird!"
Song Ying grabbed Luo Qiu's arm with both hands instead, "It's so unreasonable! Why do you have to have such a choice! Paul is just a child! What happened to him surviving? There are so many people in the world, so many people, and billions of people, is it ...... Can't even hold such a small life?"
Luo Qiu was silent for a moment.
Song Ying was a little frightened, and said in a trembling voice: "Hurry up and think of a way...... Time, there's no time!"
Alaya had already said that there were only sixty seconds left, and the time was passing quickly, perhaps less than half, perhaps less.
"Conservation. Finally, Luo Qiu spoke.
"What?" Song Ying was stunned, and Song Haoran behind her was also stunned.
"It's probably like conservation of mass. Luo Qiu sighed and said, "Physically, everything on the earth is conserved in energy. Liquids, solids, gaseous states, are transformed into each other, and humans should be in this cycle. Soul...... If the soul has weight, it should also be included in the conservation cycle. Since they are conserved parties, even if any one side is just a little more, everything will become chaotic, and it will no longer be possible to maintain the balance at this stage. Although this stage is also ......"
Speaking of this, Luo Qiu suddenly stopped and glanced at Alayya.
The girl just watched the changes on the steel platform, and at the same time, her arms slowly stretched out...... Luo Qiu knew that time was probably close to the limit.
The steel platform that spread out, at this moment, the steel plates began to crack and fall off, falling into the abyss below, which means that the space left for the red-clothed Joan and Paul is rapidly shrinking.
The huge steel plate that fell from mid-air sank into the abyss in an instant, and no sound came out, but it was this silence that made people feel scared.
Time seemed to stand still at this point, when there was very little room left for Joan and Paul in red, when the peeling steel plate was already approaching Joan in red's feet.
She glanced down, then suddenly walked over to Paul.
Behind her, the steel plates were still peeling off piece by piece, and finally, when she came to Paul, the number of steel plates was only nine, showing the appearance of a nine-square grid.
She and Paul stood in the middle of the steel plate at the same time.
"Paul... Really?" asked Joan in red, suddenly, reaching out to reach for Paul's cheek.
"Mom?" Paul looked timidly at Joan in red.
She suddenly asked softly, "Who changed your name for you, do you know?"
Paul shook his head blankly.
"I don't know. The red-clothed Joan slowly squatted down, looked at Paul's face from the bottom up, and her voice became gentle: "What about me...... In my belly, I have a baby to be born. Although Paul did not know who gave you his name, the child in my body did not have a name. Paul, you know what?"
The palm of the red-clothed Joan's hand slowly fell, grabbing Paul's wrist.
"Mother......" Paul was immediately frightened, "afraid of ......"
Because at this moment, the remaining nine steel plates peeled off the four pieces on the four corners and only the remaining five pieces, showing the appearance of a cross.
"Paul is good, not afraid. Joan's voice in red became softer, "By the way, Paul, have you ever met your father?"
When Paul heard the word father, he covered his ears, and he seemed terrified of hearing the name.
The red-clothed Joan opened her lips slightly, but soon, she stood up and hugged Paul tightly, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Come, listen, can you hear anything in my stomach?"
And at this moment, the steel plate peeled off again.
......
Four of the remaining five steel plates were also peeled off at this moment, leaving only one space for Joan and Paul in red to stand alone.
At this time, Alaya stretched out her other palm again, which means that the time she gave has come, but the result has not yet appeared, then she will carry out a backup plan, erase these 'unstable' factors, and then recreate them and put them into the original trajectory of time and space.
Target Lock. 】
[The cleaner starts.] 】
Alayah's palms began to gather a little bit of light at this time, and they soon turned into blue-white balls of light.
And among these two balls of light, Song Haoran felt despair, and he felt that these two balls of light contained huge power!
"Can you wait a minute? At this moment, Luo Qiu suddenly reached out and pressed lightly on Alayya's wrist, and looked at Alayya.
Alaya tilted his head, as if puzzled, looked at Luo Qiu: [Request?order?]
"If you ask for it, are you going to say no? Luo Qiu stared into Alayya's eyes.
The blue light flickering in these pupils began to blur, and then quickly converged, and Alaya said directly: [Sure: The limit time has been reached, and it must be cleaned up. 】
Luo Qiu pondered for a moment, and for a moment, Alaya didn't pay attention to him at all, and the two balls of light were about to shoot out.
Luo Qiu only opened his voice and said, "Order." ”
The ball of light in the palms of Alayya's hands suddenly condensed, [Accept: Sub-administrator Alayya, No. 003 Suspend the Removal Program...... The program has been suspended. 】
As he spoke, Alayya's hands slowly lowered, and then looked at Luo Qiu, [Report: The boundary time has arrived, and the 'instability' factor will affect this time and space, which is currently being calculated...... Estimating ......】
"Actually, there's still time left, right? Luo Qiu looked at Alaye, "Since two have been eliminated in a row, it means that the original burden has been reduced a lot." In that case, you can postpone it a little longer. ”
Alayya's gaze flickered non-stop, and he even closed his eyes directly, and only after a few seconds did he say: [Start correcting the boundary time, correcting the ...... Correcting ......]
Alaya fell into silence like this, Song Ying couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw this, and when she looked at Luo Qiu, she showed a smile of relief, "I really didn't misunderstand you!"
"Nope. Luo Qiu shook his head, "I just want to test whether the so-called root authority can really order Alayya...... When the time is up, if the results have not been reached, then the original ending is only postponed a little. ”
"Anyway...... Song Ying gritted her teeth, "You still helped, didn't you?" That at least proves that you are not the same as her...... Do you know that the feeling you gave me just now is the same as the feeling that this Alayya gave me!"
Luo Qiu didn't speak, just turned around and silently looked at the red-clothed Joan and Paul on the last steel plate.
He suddenly asked, "Do you think her current gentleness is true or fake?" ”
Song Ying opened her mouth and looked at it subconsciously.
At this moment, Qiao An's face in red is full of gentleness, and the lock between her mouth is rippling, which is a moving motherhood...... Like a mother nursing her child.
True or false, no one can tell.
She said that she is an actress herself.
......
"What do you hear?"
Only the last steel plate remained, but there was no fear on the face of the red-clothed Joan, her gaze was soft, as if it could be infectious, and Paul's mood gradually stabilized.
Paul looked up and looked at Joan in red suspiciously, "Mom, I can't hear anything. ”
"Can't you really hear me?"
Paul shook his head slowly.
The red-clothed Qiao An caressed his abdomen, his eyes lowered, "But I can hear that this child in the belly has been calling my mother, mother." You know, this kid also talks to me a lot. ”
Paul opened his eyes as if he felt incredible.
Joan in red touched Paul's head, "Do you want to know, what did this kid say to me?"
Paul nodded.
Joan's voice in red became a little clearer, "He said to me 'Mom, Mom, I want to come out quickly, I want to meet Mommy', and that's what he said to me. So ......"
The red-clothed Joan smiled slightly, reached out and grabbed Paul's armpit, and lifted him up, "So, if the mother wants to let the child come out to meet, but needs Paul's help, will Paul help the mother?"
"Hmm!" Paul nodded heavily.
The red-clothed Qiao An said softly: "What a good boy, my mother will always love you, always, always." ”
She lifted Paul up and put her hands out of the only piece of steel, "Always, always, always, ever, ever, ever......"
Seeing that, the red-clothed Joan is about to let go of her hand, and once she lets go of her hand, then Paul will also fall into the abyss below, into the gap between the dimensions.
"Don't!"
Finally, Song Ying screamed in horror below.
The sound was very penetrating, and in this empty and quiet mirror world, the voice was clearly transmitted to the ears of Joan and Paul in red.
But Joan in red didn't pay attention, she just looked at Paul with a smile on her face, "Paul, do you know? Mommy really wants to be your mother, she really wants to, she really wants to be able to give birth to you herself." But if Paul was there, then there would be no way for his mother to give birth to him. ”
"Mommy, doesn't want Paul?" asked Paul, with a look of fear.
"Yes. The red-clothed Joan suddenly said, "I'll have Paul." The child I gave birth to was named ...... Paul. ”
The red-clothed Joan let go of her hands in an instant.
Paul fell straight from the only steel platform and straight into the abyss.
At this moment, the red-clothed Joan's gaze was cold, looking at the falling Paul, without any expression on his face, and said indifferently: "I'm not your mother." But one thing you can be thankful for is that you have actually met your father, albeit only on this plane. ”
"Mom's ......"
The voice, the small figure, also quickly disappeared into the dark abyss...... On top of the steel plate, only the red-clothed Qiao An is now left.
Song Ying's hands that were clutching Luo Qiu's arms also hung down weakly at this moment.
She looked at the red-clothed Joan standing on the steel plate, and her eyes gradually became indifferent, as if she was only looking at a corpse, an inanimate object.
"Why...... Will it be like this......" Song Ying felt a little cold, and subconsciously hugged her body.
She looked at Luo Qiu blankly, but found that Luo Qiu was moving at this time, and she didn't even blink her eyes. She looked at Song Haoran, and saw him who had always been smiling, and his expression was slightly cold at this time.
"I've already won!" the red-clothed Joan suddenly shouted, "Alaye, this time I've really won!"
[Limit Time Correction Completed...... The limit time has reached a critical point ......] Alayya, who had paused, finally opened his eyes at this time, and his blue eyes once again shimmered with a shimmering light, and looked towards Luo Qiu: [Question: Do you continue to suspend the purge procedure. Question: Whether to continue pausing the purge process. 】
I saw Luo Qiu silently looking at the red-clothed Qiao An, and after Alayya's third inquiry, he finally spoke: "Even though there are countless dazzling pearls in the sea, there are times when they can't break out of their shells. Even, it can't be formed at all...... Do it as you like, Alayah, I don't care. ”
[Understand.] Alaya nodded: [Root authority approval has been obtained, proceed with the cleanup procedure.] It is planned to start with a backup plan, and Joan will recreate. 】
Alaya opened her hands at this point, and a cloud of light was born from her hands, and slowly floated out.
In the air, this light gradually elongated, deformed, trimmed, and finally changed into a human form, and when these rays of light began to fade from the human form, they were revealed to everyone...... It's Joan again.
But this Joe's body was gray, as if it had been molded out of clay.
Through Alayah's words, it is speculated that this Joan is not from the time and space, but the recreated Joan.
[Memory, re-creation. Alaya nodded towards this new Joan's forehead at this time, [Fusion activated, virtual soul implanted...... Implantation successful...... Perform fusion ...... The estimated fusion time is 400 seconds...... Await. 】
Seeing that the complexion of this recreated Joan gradually tends to normal, like a person who has really fallen asleep...... The red-clothed Joan screamed all at once!
"What are you doing!! what the hell are you doing!! "Joan in red shouted frantically at this moment: "I won!!I have won!!The last person left is me!!I am qualified to replace Joan in this plane!!I am the winner!!Alaye!!Alay!!Do you want to break your promise!! let me go!!Let me go!!!"
[Rejected: The victory condition was not met, and there is still an 'instability' factor.] The cleaner starts again. 】
Alaya slowly raised her palm at this moment, and the ball of light with terrifying power once again emerged from her palm.
"What do you mean that the conditions for victory have not been reached!!! Obviously, I am the only one left!!" The red-clothed Joan looked at Alayah at this time, panicking, "Are you blind! Paul let me throw it down! How can there be an 'instability' factor here!!"
But Alayah didn't say anything this time.
This made the red-clothed Joan even more desperate, "Liar!!You're all liars!!You're just using me for fun!!You're all liars!! you didn't plan to let any of them go from the beginning!Let's all die!You've deprived me of everything!! liar!!The devil !!"
"Idiot!" coldly, Song Haoran's voice rang out.
This made the red-clothed Qiao An even more stimulated, but saw Song Haoran sneering at this time: "I see that you are very smart, why haven't you figured out the simplest things? Although you are the only one left on the stage?
"And one more ...... And one more?"
However, this steel plate is only one square meter in size, who else can hide there? The red-clothed Joan kept turning his body, and all he could see was air, "You lied to me!!There is no one here!!"
"Who said there is no more?" Song Haoran narrowed his eyes and continued to sneer: "He is in your body, he is the child you are carrying." ”
The whole body of the red-clothed Joan was like a lightning strike.
"Still don't understand?"
Song Haoran glanced at Alaye, and then said, "She said that the victorious person can replace Qiao An in the original time and space, our time and space." But it didn't say, including the child who wouldn't have existed...... I'm afraid the child in your womb was conceived by you in another time and space, right? Then for this time and space, this child itself is the biggest 'instability' factor! As long as you keep pregnant with him, you won't be able to win at all! You are just trying in vain. ”
"Impossible...... No...... I don't believe it, I don't believe it...... I don't believe it!!" The red-clothed Joan suddenly pressed his head hard with both hands, "You lie to me!!You are all lying to me!!"
Song Haoran is a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, and has his own set of rules for happiness and revenge, at this time, he looked at the red-clothed Qiao An, and sneered: "Heaven is especially forgivable, and it is self-inflicted...... Not alive. ”
"I don't want it!"
The red-clothed Qiao An screamed suddenly, and at this moment, she suddenly saw her palm raised, and her hand clearly held a fork for Western food!
This fork should have been made by Qiao An in the sweatshirt, when did it get into Qiao An's hand in the red? Song Haoran's mind flashed with doubts...... Did the sweater Joan accidentally fall when he pushed the white-clothed Joan off the platform?
But there was no time for Song Haoran to think about it.
Because at this time, the red-clothed Qiao An suddenly used this Western fork to insert it into his abdominal cavity......
[Start.] 】
The ball of light in the palm of Alayya's hand also broke away directly at this moment, and shot quickly towards Qiao An in red.
The ball of light suddenly shone brightly, like the dazzling light of the sun.
In this white light, the red-clothed Qiao An on the steel plate let out a terrible cry When the ball of light approached, I saw the red-clothed Qiao An raised his hands tremblingly, as if something was being held in these hands...... The bloody life.
"I won ......"
The blazing brilliance finally swallowed it all, all the sights, all the feelings.
......
When the light gradually dissipated, the steel plate was no longer visible in the air, and of course, the existence of the red-clothed Qiao An could not be seen.
But it seems that this does not mean that it is completely finished, because Joan, who has been recreated, has not yet opened her eyes.
"People...... Is it really that scary. Song Ying looked at Song Haoran blankly, "In the end, did she put ...... Give ......"
Song Haoran did not speak.
"At least, he's been here. Although he never opened his eyes, he never saw his mother who conceived him for the first time...... But he has indeed come. ”
It was Luo Qiu's voice.
When Song Ying looked back, Luo Qiu walked forward, and then jumped into the dark abyss without warning.
"Wait here for me. ”
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