The overgrown ship resembles an abandoned garden.

When Ryan's team enters the metal interior of the alchemist's base, they encounter more and more alien plants. Green slime seeped out of the walls, snake-like red roots and purple fangs digging holes in the floor. Finally, the corridor is overgrown with vegetation, and the "sunshine" moves to the front, illuminating one of the roads ahead.

As a rule, they will find the shattered wreckage of armored aliens, their helmets melted by lasers, and their shields pierced by powerful circular projectiles. However, they never found anything to kill them.

Their killers did not leave behind a body after their death.

"If I'm not mistaken," said Sh after Ryan briefed his team

Oud said. "This is an alien ship from a long-vanished imperialist civilization, and the creature we fight with is one of its soldiers. The alchemist plundered their technology but accidentally awakened the remaining troops, and now they are fighting her for control of the facility. The alien god has given you a divine command to destroy this place before the prisoners escape. ”

"Almost, yes." Ryan replied, and Ryan examined the data Panda had collected from the alchemist's computer. The bear himself is on all fours, with his ears pressed against the wall.

Mr. Perspective didn't believe it and snickered. "Should I call you Joan of Arc?" You do hear the sound. ”

"God loves reptiles too," Ryan said, "as long as they stay in reptile territory." ”

"Why?" Shalin is not like Soti Marty, who still does not admit the facts, he listens to the explanation seriously and is silent. "Why?"

Why did Eva Fabre make Genome and Psychosis possible?" I guess...... I guess she's trying to protect us, right?" Panda suggested, trying to be kind. "Give us the strength to defend ourselves?"

"What good would it do to give power to people like Meckren and Augustus?" Leo Hargraves asked suspiciously from the front. "World War I alone caused more deaths than the two world wars combined."

"Although Mr. Bo is grateful that she has graced the universe with Mr. Bo's talent." The vaunted genome stopped for a moment. The wave did not find a way to avoid this repetition. Still, he agrees with the idea that the sun rises. There is a mismatch between what is done and what is said. ”

"Aliens won't come either." Ryan shrugged as his armor sensed a shock. "Well, except for those who are in this place."

"How do you know we're going to destroy this ship first?" The Shroud had been nagging him.

"I think we might run away in despair at the last minute, there's a countdown to numbers. Maybe an integer. ”

"I'd rather avoid that." The Shroud crossed his hands and replied coldly. "In addition to our own lives, if the elixir is really a sapient, helpful creature, then blowing up this ship will kill them as well."

"Human life is not the only thing of value," Sunshine agreed, now destroying plant growth with his light. "I agree that we can't let the horrors of this ship spread to the wider world, save quickly, but blowing it up should be a last resort."

Truth be told, Ryan was a bit hopeful that contacting the ship's control center would provide another solution as well. The "good guys" can be annoying, but the Shroud is right when it says it's worth living.

However, the Courier suspects that his presence may cause the ship to collapse.

Ryan's black power is a paradox, and its existence undermines reality. The courier guesses that Earth's dimensions are "solid" enough to absorb damage, but the thin part of the ship is a small man-made structure. Ryan degrades it a little bit every once in a while. Eventually, it may even collapse on its own.

Did the Violet Ultimates foresee this possibility? If Darklin were to say, the Illuminati creature could control all of space and time. It may be omniscient.

The panda raises a paw. "Master, I hear a sound in the metal!"

"My armor is sensing vibrations as well," Ryan said as he analyzed the readings. "Where did they come from, my red panda?"

"Left," his partner replied, catching the sound with his sensitive bear ears. "Explosion".

"They have to be very loud to get through the ship's shield," Leo Hargraves said. "Considering the increasing number of corpses, we must be approaching the scene of the battle. Can you provide more details?"

"I, I'll try!" The panda took a deep breath and was frightened by the sun. "I heard...... I heard a big, heavy thing moving, and the sound of a crash. ”

"Judging by the shape of the ship, and the way we've moved inside so far, the left should take us to the front." "If it were structured like an airplane on Earth—"

"Then this should be where the command center is located," Leo Hargraves guessed with a nod. "Timmy, can you get us as close as possible to the source of the sound?"

"Yes, sir! The panda raised one of its paws to its forehead and gave a military salute. "Of course, sir!"

"For the rest, stay vigilant," Sunshine said. "Neither side of this war is an ally."

So the panda walked in front, one ear against the ground. As they rotated, Ryan's armor received more and more vibrations and other Flux energy activity. The further they go, the more fragile the fabric of reality seems.

“Ri

i, I've finished analyzing the data," Le

At this point, they left the narrow corridor and came to the ruins of a large hangar the size of an airport. The metal walls have melted, and Ryan sees the wreckage of robots and vehicles everywhere. It is clear that there was a battle here. "This ...... That's all we need. ”

Shalin's head snapped in her direction. "For me? Can you make an antidote?"

"Yes," Len replied, then hesitated, avoiding Miss Chernobyl's gaze.

She won't like what happens next.

The psychopaths in the group clenched their fists. "Go on, Nemo. Don't sugarcoat it. ”

"Alchemist......" Len took a deep breath. Alchemists already have an antidote. From the very beginning. ”

The sarin gas suddenly froze, and the shroud hit her back.

"Say it again." Said the psychopath. But now her armor was clutched so tightly that Ryan feared she would break them.

"It's, hmm......" Sarin's heavy gaze unnerved Lunn. I should start at the beginning. If I understand the data collected...... The elixir comes from the white world, but can naturally move from one colored dimension to another and immediately adapt to the flux energy of the new home. ”

"Do they use this 'Flux' to communicate?" The Shroud asked, trying to understand.

"Yes," the dwarf nodded in confirmation. "The alchemist has deciphered the language of the elixir with alien technology, and with it, she can ...... How to say, "educate" them? Tell them how to identify the DNA, which species to bind to...... If we tie gene therapy to the right throughput information—"

"We teach elixirs to mend bugs," Ryan finally said.

"It might even work for you," Ryan explained to Sharin. "Or Frank. The key is to send the right signal. ”

Ryan had expected Miss Garshore to be overjoyed. After all, it took her 15 years to be trapped like a cloud in her suit. The possibility of being human again is a dream come true, and her former self was willing to consider murdering Ryan when she thought he wouldn't give birth.

However, Sarin discovers a worrying detail and refuses to let it go.

"She's cured," she said, her voice low and angry. "That slut has always had an antidote, but he won't release it"

Psychosis is not a bug, but a feature.

Even Mr. Bo became serious. "Why would she do that?" Why would anyone do that?"

"I ...... I can't say," Lunn replied. "All psychosis are sterile because their genetic code is unstable, so ...... So they can't replace humans like the genome does. ”

"But what about children with two genomes?" Leo Hargraves asked from the front. "All I know is of a few people who were born after one or both parents had taken the elixir, including Nassinia."

If a genome is over 15 years old, they can only gain power from the elixir. Even Fortuna and Felix have taken the elixir, unlike their adoptive mother and sister.

"If the creation of psychosis is intentional, are genomic children also at risk of mutations?" Sunshine asked, clearly worried about innocent lives.

"In my life, I've met several genomic kids, and they've all been fine," Ryan said. In addition, in cases where one parent has superpowers and the other parent does not, the child inherits a variant of the parent's abilities. But I really don't know why. ”

"It's because of Elixi

s adopts asexual reproduction, Ri

i，”Le

Say. "It's like a jellyfish. But they can also change their appearance during the copying process. ”

Ryan blinked behind his helmet, and he understood the truth. "Wait, so if my child is with a normal person, my elixir will be copied and passed on to the child?"

To his horror, Ryan nodded to confirm the theory. "If one parent is genomic and the other is not...... The elixir replicates, fuses with the fetus, and adapts slightly to the power of the new host. ”

He shuddered at the thought that Ryan's children would inherit his power and thanked himself for taking precautions to avoid having offspring. His power is both a blessing and a curse in itself, but in the hands of a child......

It would have been a nightmarish teenage years.

"If both parents are genomics......" Lenn cleared his throat. If both parents are genomic, the elixir communicates during conception to avoid the pitfalls of mental illness. Instead of competing for one host, there is only one Elixi

s copy, but get some information from the other. Because the child does not yet have dreams and desires, the child's elixir creates a power based on two 'parents'. ”

"So, take the example of Narssinia," asked Leo Hargraves, "who was born with a green genome, but her abilities were also influenced by her father's yellow abilities?"

"Her mother can change lives, her father can cut everything," Sh

Oud said. "She can create life by cutting herself. Definitely green, but with some yellow inspiration. ”

Since the offspring of the genome are always stable genomes, their number will only increase over time, regardless of the nature of the parents.

The newcomers will phase out Homo sapiens in the same way they eliminated Neanderthals.

"Then if ......" the Shroud crossed his arms. It's scary to say, but what if the mentally ill are all about killing as many normal people as possible?" If the alchemist's plan is to have the genome replace a normal person—"

"Psychopaths are born to attack other genomes first, Marty," Ryan reminded him. The randomness of power means that creatures like blood with world-ending powers may appear. "It can't be the only goal."

While they were arguing, the panda had reached the northwest corner of the hangar. "Master, we're almost there!" He raised a paw to grab the wall. "I can hear it in this direction!"

"Well, we might have to take a detour." Leo Hargraves said no doors were found. "Mr. Bo, can you take a quick tour of the room?"

Shalin angrily raised his fist at the wall and unleashed a terrifying shockwave at it.

Before Miss Chernobyl's onslaught, the fragile and fragile black steel cracked and collapsed. A terrifying sound echoed through the hangar, followed by a cloud of green and black dust as the attack exposed a path to a new huge corridor. The messenger heard the sound of lasers, explosions, and most importantly, voices coming from inside.

"I forgot to explain the fourth rule." Ryan glared at Sharin, his hands on his waist. "Don't make too much noise!"

"It's too late, nerd," replied the furious psychopath, and came out of the hole, her hands shaking with rage. Now she wants not answers, but revenge. "When I find her, I'll bleed, and it won't be my own."

Ryan couldn't bear to refuse her wishes, and the rest cautiously followed her. The messenger ended the march with Ryan. "Elf, does that antidote work for the mystery man?"

The dwarf looked down at the metal floor. "More than a certain point, if a psychopath can't stabilize their genetic code...... The damage would become so widespread that even the elixir could not correct it. She ......," she took a deep breath. Alchemist...... She has others in the warehouse. ”

Other blood. Psychopaths have degenerated into a completely different form of life. The more Ryan learns about this place, the more convinced he is that it must be destroyed at all costs.

The group followed the sounds of battle all the way to a spotless, well-lit room deep in the complex. All the blast doors on the road were torn open, and Ryan had to jump over the wreckage.

In the next room is a heavily guarded security checkpoint, where more than two dozen police officers dressed in futuristic, sleek blue tights open fire on a giant monster on a makeshift barricade made of scrap metal. Behind them stood a ruined 9-meter-high blue gate, which, unlike the rest of the facility, looked relatively intact.

Some of the guards wore helmets, some didn't, but they all had the same facial features. Short black hair, blue eyes, mediocre appearance, and a determined expression. Their weapons consisted of rifles that fired familiar red lasers, the same organic cannons used by the E.T., and strange contraptions that looked like purple rods.

On the other side of the room, closer to Ryan's party, an orange portal opened in the fabric of the space, and a giant creature walked through the middle. The entity reminded Ryan of a concrete cube over 8 meters in diameter, except with six tiny golden legs to support it.

The laser did no damage to the creature, and it shattered a barricade with one leg. The blow blew the debris and the soldiers away, and when the soldiers hit the gate behind them, they all turned into blue particles. Survivors holding poles use them to fire purple projectiles that tear through space. Ryan identified these weapons as focused purple fluxes, and unlike his black particles, reality would absorb the damage they did after a while.

However, when they hit the concrete creature, the projectile tore through its body as if it were made of clay. The barrage pushed the creature through the portal, and it disappeared into the orange flux rift, at least for now.

As the threat was temporarily resolved, the troops peeked through the makeshift fortifications to observe the newcomers. Ryan's party moved between barricades and portals, carefully not approaching any of them.

"I guess it's Eva Fabre, right?" The messenger asked. "You have a lot of twins."

"You're clones." Len whispered.

"Quantum replication," said one of the mounted policemen. Since the doubles collapsed into a blue Flux, Rya

Guess the power of the alchemist and the power of Livia follow the same rules. She creates simulations that are indistinguishable from the real thing.

"Help," said another Eva Fabre, recognizing Ryan. "The sun."

As his team formed battle formation, the time traveler was furious. Ryan and Ryan are in the back, Panda, Sunshine and the Shroud are in the middle, and Angry Shalin and Mr. Bo are in the front.

"You know us?" Leo Hargraves asked, staring at the portal, as if expecting the monster to crawl out again.

"We've been watching you for some time since you defeated Case-BiH-006 in Sarajevo," one soldier replied.

Bosnia. Bosnia.

They were talking about Makelen.

"Your power is what interests us the most," said the other, looking at Ryan. "Your ability to influence our entire reality by temporal anomalies is considered a milestone in our temporal technology research."

"We have plans in place to protect your genetic data for future preservation, but other projects require our full dedication."

"We saw you on surveillance footage, but the situation here is critical."

"After reaffirming direct control, we would be happy to discuss this issue," said one clone. "Will you help us?"

"Hell no!" Salyn took a big step forward. "Why?"

The Eva clones raised their eyebrows at the same time, and some exchanged glances. "Why are you helping us?" One of them asked. "This facility is under attack by hostile alien entities, and for the good of humanity, they must be destroyed—"

"What the fuck is that?!" Shalin roared, hands raised. "Why the fuck did you make me like this?"

"Tell me who she is?" Eva Fabre asked her stand-in.

"A mutant working with Case-USA-3682," the other responded. "Codename 'Ogre Adam'."

"Oh yes, I remember. But I don't think we gave that case file. ”

"I don't think so, either."

It was clear that Sarin could barely restrain himself and wanted to kill them all. "You don't even know my name."

"We don't need to," Eva shrugged, indifferent.

"We didn't force you to take two doses of the elixir, if that's your problem." The other said brazenly. "If you feel uncomfortable, blame your greed."

Shalin raised her gauntlets, ready to open fire on them, but Mr. Bo quickly stepped forward to stop her. Leo Hargraves still has doubts, even though his face has become more rosy than usual. His body language exuded restrained anger.

"Why did you create Psychosis in the first place? The leader of the carnival asked, and Ryan watched the cavalry. There was something in them that bothered him, but he couldn't explain why. "Why is it so sad?"

"In order for humanity to be the masters of the universe," one Eva replied calmly.

"As for psychosis, if you're referring to bichromatic mutants, we want to understand how the flux capacities of different color dimensions interact," another clone added. "We think the potential synergies will greatly outweigh monochromatic capabilities and may even lead to being able to cover the genome of reality itself."

"But we can't test this theory in a small group of people. We need something bigger. ”

"We ...... We're guinea pigs to you?" Panda asked, his cute bear face turning into a horrified expression. "But you...... You could have destroyed the world!"

"She did," replied Mr. Bo, apparently not amused. "She left it to Mr. Bo and asked him to reassemble it."

"Do you think we're so careless?" Eva asked, completely unaware of her hypocrisy. "Destruction of ecosystems is also taken into account."

"If the worst happens, we have enough genetic samples to clone a sustainable human population, as well as the project for a Martian colony."

"The likelihood of the destruction of the planet is considered small."

"It's almost negligible."

"If the worst happens, it's an acceptable loss."

"Less drastic alternatives may not be able to build a suitable population of new humans."

"According to our projections, the mass release will definitely cause Homo sapiens to decline within 200 years."

"You've ruined the planet, you crazy sociopath!" Shroud. "You've killed billions of people!"

The outbreak did not even attract their attention. "Yes, patients often experience significant pain when using shock treatment, but ultimately, what matters is whether the treatment is effective. By the next era, when we establish colonies in the solar system and expand—"

"You don't care about humans at all," Shalin snapped. "You say it nicely, but you don't care in your heart." Her gauntlets were full of energy. "You're just like Adam."

"We don't eat people," replied one clone, completely missing the point. "Now, if you're no longer childish and have tantrums, we'd love to tell you why it's necessary to do so once we take back the facility."

"You ......" Although he couldn't see her face under the armor, Ryan could hear the anger in Ryan's voice. Ever since she learned about Dy

Amis hadn't sounded so angry since how she turned blood into a product. "You killed billions of people...... ruined my father's life...... All this despair and destruction...... Do you have any regrets?"

The response was swift and chilling.

"Nope." All the Evas replied in unison.

"No, of course not," one said, as if it were a stupid question. "Imagine that one day humanity will reshape the fabric of reality, like a painter uses a canvas?"

"The universe is a dangerous place," the other continued. "In order for humanity to be prepared for the danger that is coming, stress testing is necessary."

And then came the fatal blow.

"We did what was necessary." One shrugged. "It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. Someday, you'll understand. ”

Ryan has encountered many monsters and megalomaniacs in his life. Bombastic psychopath, fanatical genetic warlord, God worshipper. He thought he had heard it all.

But the woman's voice ...... That total, indifferent disregard for human life...... Even the big fat Adam and Augustus showed more emotion, even if it was brutal. But the alchemist doesn't even feel that way.

Eva Fabre destroyed the world for a daydream, and she didn't care at all.

"You've seen what those lizards are doing," Ryan said, realizing in horror. "I wonder why you never considered it a terrible idea to follow in their footsteps, but now I understand. The elixir of life fulfills people's strongest desires, and yours is to have a large number of replicas that tell you how great you are. You turned this ship into an echo chamber!"

"We considered this possibility, but ruled it out." The Eva family replied in unison. "We're all simulations from different universes."

"But you're still a bit like Eva Fabre," Ryan noted. "Don't you understand?" You may have different experiences, but there are enough similarities and you still count as the same person! That's enough for you to complete each other's sentences!"

If she had really created a different simulation, then some would have protested against this terrible act. But none of them. Of course, her power does not summon copies against her, no matter how good her intentions may be, and over the years, only servile copies have been accompanied by them, slowly eroding Eva Fabre's critical thinking.

She's more narcissistic than Augustus!

"I've heard enough."

The sun drifted through the ground, no longer a warm morning sun, but a fireball of revenge.

"Carnival, arrest this woman," he ordered. The shroud was gone, and Mr. Bo snapped his knuckles, dodging the sarin, and even the panda looked angry. Ryan personally prepared her high-pressure water gun, which was written entirely in words. "Eva Fabre, you have been arrested for genocide, human experimentation, and ahhhh If you surrender, you will receive a fair trial before a civil jury. Resistance will be met with lethal force. ”

"You want to arrest us?" Eva asked. Worst of all, she sounded genuinely surprised. For years, only her clones kept company, which eroded all her potential for self-reflection, to the point that she expected other genomes to align with her in principle. "We have turned you into gods!"

"Then you're finished!" As he replied, Mr. Bo turned into a laser and headed straight for the barricade.

The Ivass fired back with a laser salvo, Ryan froze time, and his team prepared to charge. The Courier looked up at the orange portal that was still fluctuating in frozen time, then at the door behind the alchemist, which was as blue as the sea.

Behind this door is the command center of the starship. He could feel it in his heart.

Right now?

Now, he can only punch in.