It's actually a brother and sister relationship.

Xu Nan, who was watching coldly, couldn't help but admit with some shame that the conversation and lines between the two just now made him think a little crookedly.

It seems that some unpleasant things happened to the two, so that Helena was kicked out of the house by Akai, but in the end, Akai was not without guilt in his heart.

It can be seen that he still cares about his sister very much, and he tries to make amends.

But Helena's attitude was different.

She looked calm, and even had a feeling of death.

Xu Nan noticed that only when her gaze stayed on the alchemy doll's body would she reveal a little warm human brilliance.

In the face of Akai's pleading, she smiled lowly:

"Remember when you were a kid? At that time, no matter what happens, you always have to try to convince me that you are right. ”

"Many times I don't want to admit it, but because of your temper and the strength that has always been much greater than mine, I can only reluctantly submit to you."

"As I grew up, you became much gentler towards me, and it was only after Vigneueu's appearance that you rarely reprimanded me."

"After that, we never met again."

"Aside from some vague childhood memories and the so-called blood relationship, what is left between us?"

Her voice was hoarse and deep, as if she were recounting something that had nothing to do with her.

Akai's eyes widened, as if he was in disbelief.

"Don't look at me like that." Helena suddenly became a little disgusted: "If you really care about me and my children, why have you ever looked for me in the future for so many years?" ”

"You left my world on your own initiative just because you didn't approve of my marriage choice, so how can I trust you now that I'm coming to the door?"

"Your face is so strange to me, so foreign that I can't even remember the last time you smiled at me...... So, put away your hypocritical face! ”

"I'm fine, I don't need you to save and I don't despise your kindness."

Akai suppressed his anger, and he gritted his teeth and roared:

"That's why you're in a nest with the Soul Stealers?"

Helena was a little dazed:

"Lifestealer?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Akai was stunned for a moment, he just wanted to tell Helena that the place where they lived was the nest of the Soul Stealers, who knew that at this time, Helena suddenly reprimanded loudly:

"Stay away from my kids!"

She even stood up abruptly and pushed Xu Nan away!

Xu Nan stumbled and looked at Helena a little innocently.

He still had half a broken immortal flower in his hand.

"This is the ...... he gave me," Xu Nan explained.

He really wasn't lying.

Just as Akai and Helena were narrating their family routines, Xu Nan's attention was all on the alchemy puppet little sun god. He stared at the puppet for a long time, but the puppet actually smiled at him - because there was no particularly subtle expression, Xu Nan couldn't be completely sure that the posture of opening and closing his mouth was laughing.

But his instincts were like this.

So he smiled at the little sun god as well.

The child seemed to come to life, and his reaction became more active, and he compared the flowers in his hand to Xu Nan.

It was an immortal flower.

Like his body, it is part of alchemy.

Xu Nan subconsciously picked it up, but was pushed by Helena, who reacted violently.

"This woman's strength is so great......"

Xu Nan touched his chest and secretly felt pain.

Helena was a little unconvinced, and she grabbed the little sun god's wrist, as if she was afraid that the child would be lost.

As a result, the wrist slowly raised, the puppet-like face lifted slightly, the mouth opened, and the corners of the mouth appeared in a rare curvature.

The belly of the "Flowey......" puppet makes such a sound.

Helena was stunned for a moment.

She looked at her children in disbelief, or at the works.

"How is this possible......"

"He doesn't even ...... me"

Helena suddenly stared at Xu Nan, and that look made Xu Nan creepy.

This woman seemed to want to devour Xu Nan alive.

Akai calmed down instead, and he whispered dissuasion, "Anyway, let's get out of here first." ”

"Believe me, Helen, this is the territory of the Soul Stealers, and you and your children are very dangerous here."

"Let's go find a safe house first, in fact, I've got one for you a long time ago."

Helena turned abruptly, her eyes rolling, and she suddenly laughed dryly:

"Danger? Where are we not in danger? ”

"What I want to do, I have done it, and I have no regrets in my life."

"But my child, I want him to live forever."

Akai chimed in:

"Of course, I promise you, I'll protect you. I will protect his safety with my life! ”

Helena seemed to be moved, and her face showed a look of consideration.

Akai immediately tried to persuade again.

But Xu Nan could see that Helena had no intention of leaving with Akai at all.

Her eyes have said it all - Xu Nan has super high negotiation skills and persuasion level, not only is she very good at negotiations, but she is also effective in the observation stage.

"She seems to be interested in me."

"The subtext just now is that the little sun god doesn't even have a lot of closeness or communication with his mother?"

When Xu Nan was thinking like this, he suddenly saw a bottle of blue potion in Helena's hand in the afterglow!

The potion was dark blue, with a golden walnut glittering inside, and some flocculents.

"What do you want to do?"

Before he could finish his words, he saw Helena raise the potion in her hand and slam it on the floor!

This time, even Akai didn't react.

In an instant, a large number of blue bubbles filled the entire secret room, not giving Xu Nan and Akai time to react at all, and the entire room was sealed by the blue bubbles!

"Damn the Outer Worlds ......"

This was the last sentence that Xu Nan heard before being pulled away by a strange power.

……

Labyrinthine world, tall and fantastic buildings.

This is everything Xu Nan can see.

In this world, most of his abilities work, but he can't return to Paradise Lost.

"What kind of alchemy is this?"

"It seems that a temporary world has been artificially created, and Akai said it was the outer world?"

"I don't know what that woman wants to do......"

Xu Nan maintained full vigilance.

Although Helena seems to have no ill intentions, he must find a solution to the outer world as soon as possible.

This thing is probably similar to the enchantment that Elliot used to trap enemies for a while, but it is difficult to deal significant damage.

Xu Nan walked in the labyrinth, and after a while, he saw Akai, but he was separated by a puddle of water stains - in the water stains on the ground, he saw Akai angrily walking on a road very similar to the one in front of him, and then disappeared at the end of the horizon.

"She wants to trap us here?"

"Or is she just trying to separate us?"

When Xu Nan thought so, a low laugh suddenly came from behind him.

Like the laughter of a child.

He turned around and saw the doll, and Helena standing beside him.

By this time, all the clothes on the little sun god's body had disappeared, and Xu Nan could finally see his whole picture clearly.

This is a very delicate alchemy doll, every part of the body uses super high alchemy skills, although it is a metal body and joints, but it looks basically the same as a simulated person in a science fiction movie.

The only thing that is a little confusing is that his head is actually carved from similar wood, not much different from ordinary dolls, and the mouth is actually sewn with glittering cotton threads.

I don't know what Helena's intentions were to turn her child into this ghost.

He looked at Helena and didn't speak, for he knew that she would say all this herself.

"You seem to have guessed that I was going to come for you."

Helena stared at Xu Nan, her eyes were exactly the same as before.

Xu Nan smiled: "I don't think you have a reason to hurt us." ”

"There's only one purpose left for this move, and you seem to be interested in me being able to communicate with your children in a simple way."

Helena nodded, then shook her head again:

"Actually, I don't care who you are."

"It's just that my kids tell me you can be trusted."

"I just chose to believe him."

Xu Nan looked at the doll with some surprise, and the doll still showed a big smile to him.

"It's unbelievable that he agrees with you."

Helena's tone became rare and lively: "I just noticed that you are a Warlock of Ron. ”

"So, you're the Dreadnought of this generation, aren't you?" (Note 1.)

Xu Nan looked dazed.

"Looks like you don't know anything yet."

I don't know why, Xu Nan suddenly felt that Helena looked at him with some pity.

"I have something very important to give you."

"I want you to help me take care of my children."

"I have many, many things to tell you......"

Xu Nan frowned, and asked a little unceremoniously:

"Why?"

The corners of Helena's mouth rose slightly, and a dark red stone suddenly appeared in her hand.

"It's a special power stone."

"The secrets of God's alchemy are all in this stone."

"If you can do what I want you to do, the stone is yours."

"I don't think anyone in Paradise Lost would be interested in the alchemy of the gods."

Xu Nan actually resented Helena's tone of mind.

But after thinking about it carefully, there is really no way, there is a kind of heroic shortness of "I wanted to refuse, but the money given by the other party is too much".

So he nodded dryly:

"Yes."

"Give me the stone first."

Helena didn't seem to be worried that Xu Nan would regret it at all, and directly threw the energy stone to Xu Nan.

Xu Nan held the energy stone tightly, and before he could carefully observe the energy stone, Helena's voice came from his ears:

"Do you know that the Shameless are fearless?"

What?

Xu Nan raised his head, a little suspicious that his ears were wrong.

"The most basic requirement of God's alchemy is ......"

"Shameless."

Helena's face flushed, as if she were telling something unusually sacred.

The tall body of the little sun god stood by her side, in stark contrast to Helena's relatively small body.

……

It all started many years ago.

Helena was originally a very ordinary alchemist, her talent was very limited, although her parents were wizards of Stephen Sand, but in their generation, Akai was a witch hunter cursed by witchcraft, and Helena only had a little bit of alchemy talent.

With the legacy of their parents, the siblings were able to maintain their lives in Stephen Sand.

Helena started out in a poorly run alchemy workshop, and at that time, she lived the most ordinary life, making simple potions every day, and then making ends meet with good relationships.

Until she met the man who was enough to change her life.

It was her mentor, Vigneu.

Vigneueu believed that Helena possessed an otherworldly talent for alchemy, but that her alchemy talent could not be used within the existing alchemy framework, and he cordially invited Helena to join the Deception Society.

Helena knew that her brother Akai was a very stubborn and old-fashioned person, and if he knew about joining the Deception Society, he would definitely stop it; So instead of quitting her job in the alchemy workshop, she secretly joined the Deception Society.

There, under Vigneu's tutelage, she first came into contact with the Alchemy of Instability, that is, the magical alchemy based on the principles of the Deception Society.

As Vigneu said, she does have a lot of talent, but the drawbacks of unstable alchemy are also obvious, as they are unable to produce reliable alchemy items sustainably in the long term.

Sometimes it can be a big success, sometimes it is a big failure - this variable is not recognized by the mainstream alchemy community.

Randomness and variables are seen as elements that should be eliminated and controlled, and this dominant bias greatly stifles the germ of unstable alchemy.

Despite this, Vigneueu and Helena remain immersed in the wonderful world of unstable alchemy.

And in the process, they fell in love.

In pursuit of love, Helena resolutely tells Akai that she is in love with her mentor.

This puzzled the old-fashioned Akai, who had quietly quit her "serious job" after learning that Helena had quietly quit her "serious job" in order to follow Vigneu in her unstable alchemy, and Akai was even more furious, and he threatened to break off the relationship with Helena.

Unless she leaves a "shameful person" like Vignieux.

But Helena didn't do this, in the face of love, career and family affection, she chose the former.

The siblings never saw each other again for years.

But none of this is what Helena cares about.

All she cared about was chasing the laws of alchemy that transcended the existing framework.

That's the most fascinating part.

Her mentor was also an unborn genius of the Deception Society, and Vigneuel had been studying the unstable alchemy for a long, long time, and he had achieved great results compared to his predecessors.

But this result is still a long way from a real breakthrough.

Soon, another real problem came to them.

That's the money.

Alchemy is very money-burning.

According to Helena, a small experiment at Vigneueu's peak was enough to consume half a year's savings.

The alchemists of the Deception Society were already discriminated against, most of them were poor, and there were not many people who could help them in terms of funds.

Stephen Sand has a lot of capital institutions that invest in young alchemists, but they are not interested in unstable alchemy.

The couple's life was extremely difficult.

At one point, they reached the stage where they ran out of rice to cook, and at that time, Vigneueu thought about giving up.

But in the end, it was Helena who encouraged him to push forward.

At that time, Vigneueux had a very important subject at hand, and according to his own words, once this subject was solved, it was possible that the institutional framework of unstable alchemy would be unified to some extent!

This could be a step across the ages!

But they walked so hard.

At one point, the lab was shut down due to a lack of lighting.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for a frustrated Vigneule to see his smiling wife, who brought good news: a small venture capital firm was willing to pay for their project.

The upfront payment arrived quickly.

Vigneueu wept bitterly, and he was finally able to carry out the important experiments that he had been thinking about day and night. He didn't ask Helena much how she did it, but happily threw herself into the work.

Even if there are occasional discordant rumors in the surrounding environment, he doesn't care.

Perhaps, he was not unaware, but more than anything else, he cared more about the breakthrough that might be of great significance to the entire alchemy world.

Vigneueu's experiments are still ongoing, and the lab is lit up every day.

Helena works as an assistant every day during the day.

In the evening, she excused herself and said that she was tired from work and wanted to go home to rest.

Only by daylight the next day, she looked more tired.

Occasionally, there will be signs of whipping.

Vigneu saw it, but was silent, and tried even harder.

It was, in Helena's words, "the most exciting, the most disgusting, yet the most unforgettable".

……

"Maybe you'll think I'm disgusting."

"My husband and I are like that."

"But that's the truth, even when I'm picking up customers, my mind is thinking about what shortcomings have occurred in the daytime experiment."

"We're fighting and dying for the new world of alchemy, and that's not a big deal."

"Day by day, finally, we waited for the day when the experiment ended."

"At that time, I really felt that the hard days were coming to an end."

"But at that time I didn't notice anything unusual in my body."

"I look like I'm pregnant."

"I don't know whose child it is, and I can't go to hundreds of people to find the child's father."

"But the most frightening thing is that I have already taken all the measures...... You must know that it is not so easy for an alchemist like us to get pregnant. ”

"I instinctively felt that something was wrong, but was quickly distracted by the experiment."

"It's time to wrap up the experiment."

"Things happened ......"

……

Note 1: The Dreadnought, Volume I, Chapter 174, Romans has mentioned.