Colonial Suit

"This is...me?"

Blood瞳 reached out a finger, wanting to touch the infant in the modulation nest, but touched nothing.

In this illusion, he became invisible. Others couldn't see him, and he couldn't do anything.

But this didn't affect the shock in his heart, and a kind of ice-cold feeling from the depths of his soul.

So, I am also a creation.

Not a person. Just a mass of flesh created from the modulation nest.

No soul, no parents. Not even as good as the later Krodel people, who at least once had a father. A creation, merely a creation. The same as machines, steel, and spaceships. In a sense, not even different from a colony.

So cold...

In the endless void, Blood瞳 trembled slightly. He wasn't in pain. In fact, he didn't even know what pain was. He just felt cold. Cold to the bone, cold enough to freeze the soul.

No, I don't have a soul...

Blood瞳 thought, feeling even colder.

In this cold feeling, he watched the Wise One step forward and connect the culture dish to a biological pipeline. The next moment, endless black mist flowed along the pipeline into each modulation nest. Flowing into... each infant's body.

"What is that?"

Staring blankly at all this, Blood瞳 asked unconsciously.

Actually, he didn't want an answer, but unexpectedly, Boya replied.

"He's restarting hope," he said softly, his voice ethereal as if from the horizon.

"Hope?"

"The meaning of hope lies in that you can expect it."

"Are you joking? Expecting a group of soulless creations?"

"Our Krodel ancestors were creations. So we don't think there's anything wrong with creations," Boya replied, paused for a moment, and then said, "Moreover, they are not without souls. They are the seeds of Krodel, so how could they repeat our path?"

"What do you mean?"

Blood瞳's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly woke up. At this moment, an unspeakable expectation surged in his heart, which, in Boya's words, was called hope?

What did he hope for? To hope that he wasn't a creation? Or to hope that he possessed a soul??

Or... was he still hoping that he was a natural person?

Dreams will wake, because dreams are always just dreams.

Boya appeared beside Blood瞳 at some point, silently watching Blood瞳. After a while, he sighed.

"Haven't you seen it yet? That ball of black mist is their soul. Which is..."

"You."

Wh...what!?

Blood瞳's heart suddenly tightened, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

How is this possible!?

That ball of mist from the bottom of the abyss was actually the soul? And he was the combination of it and enhanced cells. Then what kind of existence was he?

Blood瞳 couldn't understand. He felt his mind was in a mess, and his whole person was muddled. Since walking out of x35, Blood瞳 had never been so confused as he was now. Everything was collapsing in front of him, and he suddenly lost his fighting spirit.

For survival...

Everything was for survival...

But if he was such a monster, then what was the point of living? Was his existence being teased by an invisible hand in fate?

The feeling of coldness became more severe. Blood瞳 silently watched the Wise One work, injecting black mist into each infant's body. Then the infants continued to be modulated, and were loaded into small spaceships, launched into the universe like dandelion seeds.

"How many of these seeds do you have?" inexplicably, Blood瞳 asked such a question.

"Many..." Boya replied. "Countless."

"Are they... still alive?"

"I don't know," Boya shook his head. "This is the first batch of test subjects. Later, there were second and third batches. For the sake of inheritance, we constantly repeated the same work, but the results were disappointing."

"Do you know? In fact, since the destruction of our civilization, only five people have been able to come here. Among the first four, only one was a seed, and the rest were Krodel survivors. You are the fifth, and possibly the last."

"Why?"

"Because our time is running out..." Boya hesitated, and finally said, "And you... are different."

"I was not a participant in the plan, but what I know is that the original seed plan was full of many uncertainties, and our environment at the time was also very severe. So in the end, the King seemed to have launched another plan. A plan called regeneration. The plan content is divided into three parts, and we are one of them. The other two parts were destroyed in the abyss, and the other was taken away by Leia."

"You are the one who was taken away by Leia. You are the King's last hope, personally modulated by our Chief Wise Man Renos... the complete body."

"............" Blood瞳 didn't speak, but he knew that Boya didn't need to lie to him. Because he did receive Leia's care, and obtained the colony under Leia's operation. All of this seemed accidental at first. Now it seems that it was arranged long ago. Blood瞳 raised his head, his mood was confused, but it was much better than before, at least he knew that he was not a soulless creation, but a strange life.

And was this what Boya wanted to tell him??

Thinking about the previous conversation, Blood瞳's eyes gradually cleared up.

He took a deep breath and asked Boya, "So whether I choose to inherit or not, the Krodel disaster will come upon me again? Just because I am that thing from the bottom of the abyss? I am the source of all disasters?"

"I'm sorry, but that's the truth," Boya nodded. The next moment, he waved his hand and took Blood瞳 back to the altar again. "What I want to tell you is, don't back down because of the possible dangers ahead. This choice is not only related to Krodel, but also to yourself. Any choice made under the interference of external factors is irresponsible to you and your companions."

Finally, Boya sighed and said with emotion, "When fate descends, no one can stay out of it."

"Now, do you still choose to refuse?"

"I..." Blood瞳 opened his mouth, but found that he could no longer say the words of refusal.

It turned out that everything he had imagined before was wrong. It was not Krodel who brought him danger, but he who promoted the destruction of Krodel civilization. In a sense, his existence was a kind of sin. Regardless of whether he accepted the inheritance of Krodel, danger would still befall him and everyone around him.

The source of calamity.

He was the source of calamity and nightmare.

Blood瞳 painfully closed his eyes...

"I accept."