Looking at the unfamiliar face in front of him, Chu Ling's tears crawled all over his cheeks unconsciously, and he wanted to call out the name that he had been thinking about for a long time in his heart, but he couldn't say anything.

At this time, Chu Tian on the side completely confirmed Chu Ling's premonition, only to hear him say lightly: "Didn't you keep asking your mother, she is here now, exactly the same as in the photo, there is no change at all." ”

"Mother...... Dear?" Although Chu Ling's cheeks were completely wet with tears at this time, the expression on his face was very calm, just like his eyes and face were two different people, looking very weird.

Her mother was right in front of her eyes, but in Chu Ling's mind, the only memory that remembered her mother's appearance by looking at the photos had long been forgotten.

The woman embedded in the roots of the tree is like a stranger she has met for the first time, but if this is the case, what should be the place for this sense of familiarity and intimacy that arises spontaneously from the heart?

The woman in the root of the tree lowered her head, the whole person seemed to be sleeping peacefully, her rosy lips, crystal skin, and sky-blue hair were so soft on her shoulders, and the whole person exuded a gentle and feminine temperament from the inside out.

She ...... Are you dead?" Chu Ling held back for a long time, but still couldn't call out that title, so he could only say in a trembling voice.

"She's not dead, but she's dead. Chu Tian whispered, stretched out his hand and subconsciously wanted to take a cigarette to smoke, but suddenly thought that this was a reminder from the woman just now, so he had to endure it and sat down on a relatively much thinner tree root next to him.

When Chu Ling heard this, he couldn't help frowning a little puzzled and said, "Dad, what do you mean by this?"

"Don't you want to know everything? I'll tell you everything right now. Chu Tian said with a long sigh, looked up at the soft woman embedded in the roots of the tree above, a trace of infatuation flashed in his eyes, and after a long while, he said aloud, "The most said thing your mother said before she was alive was that she was sorry. ”

The object of this sorry sentence is none other than you. ”

"Me?" Chu Ling didn't know what kind of expression he should make when he heard this, he wanted to laugh but couldn't, wanted to cry but couldn't, the corners of his mouth kept twitching on his face.

"I'm sorry I didn't give you a healthy birth. Chu Tian turned his head and looked at Chu Ling seriously at this time, "Your mother has always wanted to say this to you personally, but unfortunately, she couldn't wait for you to grow up. ”

The tip of his nose suddenly became a little sore, Chu Ling hurriedly and quickly raised his head to look at the soft woman above, his teeth clenched, his mouth kept twitching for a while, and then he let out a sigh of relief, and said lightly: "She didn't feel sorry for me, she gave me life, she couldn't control the defects of her ability, and she didn't need to apologize for it." ”

"In fact, not long after you were born, your mother discovered your identity as a defective person, but we chose to hide it at the time, and your mother thought she would be able to make you live like a healthy child. Chu Tian narrated in a low voice, and a gentle smile appeared on his vicissitudes of life.

Chu Ling raised his head and looked intently at the gentle cheeks of his mother above, did not speak, and quietly waited for Chu Tian's next statement.

"Your ability flaw is that your memories fade faster as soon as you use your abilities, so your mother and I decided not to develop and test your abilities in any way, so that you can live happily as a normal person. ”

"Ideas are good, but the awakening of supernatural abilities has nothing to do with people's subjective consciousness. Speaking of this, Chu Tian suddenly looked at Chu Ling with a smug smile and said, "Maybe my genes with your mother are too good, your ability awakened early, or rather, you have had an ability since you were born, but you couldn't use it at that time." ”

Chu Ling moved his eyes downward, and noticed that there was a faint digital seal on his mother's left shoulder and arm that had not completely faded, and if the number was carefully identified, it could be seen that it was a number "11".

Chu Tian, who noticed his son's gaze, also said with a smile at this time: "Your mother is not a simple person, she is the 11th person on the last year's ability list. I heard that her ranking has been kept by the lark in the last two sessions, but she doesn't seem to have participated in this year's ranking battle, and I don't know if something happened. ”

"Skylark?" Chu Ling turned his head when he heard this, as if he had never heard of this unfamiliar name.

"She is your mother's apprentice, and she is half an adopted daughter, a very lovely girl, and if you have the chance to meet her, you must call her sister. Chu Tian mentioned it casually, then waved his hand and said, "That's wrong, you can slowly understand these things in the future." ”

After speaking, Chu Tian took a deep breath, closed his eyes and recalled the past, and then continued to speak: "Your ability is very special, and it can even be said that it subverts the definition of ability in the ability world at that time, and you don't have enough knowledge reserves, even the awakened themselves can't use it. ”

"But you kid is smart enough, and your mother and I didn't expect that you, who were only five or six years old at the time, would have already mastered the basic use of genetic manipulation with your own child-like ideas. ”

"And you've been using your abilities for a long time without us, so the ripple effects of your ability defects have come much sooner than your mother and I had anticipated, and you're starting to lose track of things, and this feeling has made you very anxious and irritable as a young person. ”

"At that time, it was the outbreak of the plane war, your mother was an excellent spiritual guard in the spiritual domain at that time, and was ordered to escort a piece of material, and at that time I also formed a force named Ling Yun, I have a cooperative relationship with the spiritual domain, so I can only temporarily entrust you to your sister Skylark, and take my subordinates and your mother to escort the material together. ”

When Chu Tian said this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said in a cold voice: "But what we never expected was that there was a chaotic undercover agent among us! ”

"That night, the people of chaos poured out, led by the six evils of chaos, and all the members of the three guards of heaven, earth, and man, with more than 5 times more than our number, and wiped out all of us there, and none of them were spared, but they also suffered heavy losses, and after paying so much, the material that should have been robbed was gone. ”

"None of them were spared?!" Chu Ling asked in some surprise when he heard this.

Chu Tian glanced up at him and said, "That's right, we were all supposed to die, but your mother burst out with all her abilities at the last moment, the life connection. As long as it is the object connected to her, all of them share their lives with her, and as long as she is the main body does not die, the secondary body connected to her will never die because of external injuries!"

"We held on like this for a long time, and finally survived until the Spirit Mother arrived with support and saved our lives. ”

"But your mother's life force is on the verge of depletion, and the ability of life connection is not invincible, because in order to repair the injuries on the secondary body, the main body must divide its own life force and pass it on to the secondary body. The end result of that battle is that your mother is depleted of her life force. ”

"I and the rest of us are alive by your mother's life bond, and as long as she dies, we who are connected will also die because we have lost our shared vitality. ”

"So, at the last moment, your mother asked the Spirit Mother to unite her with the Tree of Life, and with the great vitality of the Tree of Life, she could continue to keep the bonds of life connected. ”

When Chu Tian said this, his hands were slowly clenched, obviously his heart was not calm.

After a long time, he continued, "The Spirit Mother finally agreed to her request, but because she was so weak at the time, she was no longer breathing when she was brought to the Tree of Life. ”

"We all thought we were going to die, but a miracle happened, the tree of life took her in, maintained her last faint signs of vital signs, and maintained the bond that connected us, but she always remained in this state of the living dead. ”

Chu Tian said and looked up at the soft woman above, and said with a look of affection: "It's been more than twenty years, she still hasn't changed at all, just like when she was young, but I'm too old." ”