"I never thought that human memory could be put in a bottle."
Soshyan looked at Erda's face.
“Thinking about it this way, when the gods look at our lives, they must be as drunk as sipping a cup of the purest wine.”
“I don’t dare to call myself a god.”
Erda smiled and picked up a piece of candy on the golden plate held by the doll and handed it to Soshyan.
After taking it, Soshyan hesitated for a moment and put it in his mouth.
The next moment, an indescribable sweetness spread in his mouth. In other words, the taste was not sweet, but "joy". It seemed that he saw Veronica smiling and handing over a swaddle. To himself, he felt how he felt at that moment after he took it and saw a cute little face sleeping in the swaddling clothes.
The sugar is very small and the taste disappears quickly.
Erda looked at the subtle expression on Soshyan's face and nodded.
“Very good, you can feel the taste of happiness. You are much stronger than that old dog and donkey. Don’t listen to his nonsense. What is the third option? Do you think he will really sacrifice himself? Perfecting the child? He is just testing! Since I have known him, he has been very fond of testing others, even testing human nature.”
As she said that, she handed over another piece, but Soshyan waved her hand.
“That’s enough, thank you, Ms. Erda, this is a very rare taste, but there are many people, even the original body, who have never experienced this taste for a day from birth to death. In my heart Ashamed."
When he said this, Erda withdrew his hand and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
“You said before that you have questions to ask me.”
“Yes, I have countless questions to ask. The stars in the Milky Way have lit up and gone out several times. What I want to ask There are so many questions, but I know time may not allow it, so I only have the most important ones.”
"What?"
"First of all, did Li really kill the soldiers of the Eleventh Legion? Did he collude with the Necrontyr? And do you know this?"
Erda didn't answer him, just raised his hand and swept around.
“Look here, Soshyan, this place seems so spacious and empty. This was originally the place I prepared for him and them. I will accompany the children here through their most vulnerable period. Time, until they have more independent thoughts and become the person they are willing to be. But now it is just an empty nest, which is almost a curse for a mother. I know that I was not a competent mother. , I have regretted this, and I have also been angry about it. When Erebus found me, I realized that I should do something. At least I can continue to protect them in another form. This can be regarded as mine. "
After listening, Soshiyang was silent for a moment and said in a slightly sulky voice:
"So, you know, right? You know what Li did, but you chose to condone it."
"He will not hurt you, nor will he hurt the people around you, but he He has his own ideas, it’s no big deal.”
At this time, Soshiyang suddenly remembered what Elena once said to him - they cannot use those who have become subspace existences. Common sense and logic allow us to realize that their behavior is not entirely based on reality, but their essence is what determines their behavior.
At this time, Erda seemed to be unable to reason with common sense. She seemed gentle but had a suffocating stubbornness.
“You think it’s no big deal if he does something like this!?” “Did Li do anything to hurt you?”
“Those soldiers left behind by the Eleventh Legion——”
Erda waved his hand gently.
"They're just some Space Marines. They're not even your subordinates, and you don't know them."
Soshiyang was a little speechless, but he really couldn't tell what Li thought about him. Did something bad happen.
But he also saw that Erda had an unreasonable indulgence in Li, which was a kind of mother's completely unreasonable doting on her child.
The source of Erda's current power is likely to be infinite maternal nature, and at the same time, it is accompanied by endless indifference to all living beings. This is a kind of love that is almost selfish.
"Ms. Erda, do you feel you owe Li something?"
Hearing this, Erda sighed softly after a moment of silence, and took a dirty doll from the hand of the doll on the side. A doll covered in bandages.
“Since his birth, Solomon and I have regarded him as a test subject, just a tool, but he still trusts us, respects us, and loves us. I can see that he is very eager to He was recognized by Solomon, but as a warrior, he was far from Solomon's expectations. Even what he was best at was painting rather than killing. Solomon threw him aside like garbage and asked him to lead the cleaning team. He went to hunt those mutated creatures abandoned in the sewers of the laboratory. He said nothing and stayed in the sewers for twenty years. It was not until I became pregnant with Xerxes that Solomon recalled him from the sewers at my request. , let him guard me. During the time when Solomon and I parted ways, he was also by my side. He may not be the strongest child, but he must be the kindest and gentlest, so I Believe that he must have his own reasons for doing what he does, and you should also trust him.”
In the past, Soshyan wouldn't have believed Erda's words, but after knowing that Erda was not a "person" at all, Soshyan could hear more from it.
"No disrespect, Ms. Erda, but Li is actually just a substitute for you to fill the vacancy in your heart after throwing away the children."
Erda narrowed her eyes, But the hand holding the doll gradually became harder.
"Do you really love him that much? If, if Xerxes were still alive, would you really treat both of them equally as your children? I guess. Probably not, Li The final outcome will most likely be back in the sewers."
As he spoke, Soshyan suddenly looked up and laughed.
"Hahaha! Kind! Gentle! Ms. Erda, do you know? If I were Li, I would only be in pain! I would only hate! I would only be angry!"
When he lowered his head , his expression was nothing but angry eyes.
"Ms. Erda, believe me, Li is not who you think he is. I might have hated him before, but now I just pity him. If it were me, my brothers would all be demigods. They have immortal lives and the power to crush the sun, moon and stars. They are supported by all the people, and they have thousands of troops under their command. They share a huge empire with my father, but I am just a piece of trash in the sewer, invisible to anyone. A rat of light, a failure in the eyes of father and mother. Believe me, madam, I will hate every one of you, every one of you."
Soshiyan's words made Erda very angry, and her whole face looked pale. Needless to say, some kind of power was also growing crazily, and even the dolls around him were so scared that they cried.
"Soshiyan!"
In front of Soshyan, Erda's body began to grow rapidly, taking on the form of a translucent ghost. Layers of spinning threads and gauze covered her body and fluttered around her, and her face was even more... There are countless changes in an instant. Sometimes she is a black woman, like a statue carved from obsidian, looking majestic due to the accumulation of a long life. Sometimes she is like a young girl, filled with infinite beauty and the firepower of life, tall and tall. The scythe wielded by her limbs shone under the blood moon, and sometimes she turned into an old woman. Her skin was as rough as a withered olive, her body was like a twisted tree root, and her thick-boned fingers froze everything she grabbed.
But no matter what the shape, her abdomen is bulging, as if she is pregnant with a baby that will never be born.
(End of this chapter)