Seeing Kiana in a state of shock, frozen like a statue, Bianka quickly explained to her from beginning to end how she had been born here.
Although the story seemed to lack a clear beginning and end, as it was only from Bianka's own perspective, Kiana's already large eyes grew even larger.
Test subject, artificial human...
Bianka didn't know how piercing these two words were to Kiana, who had read the original story, especially since a large part of the story was dedicated to describing how Kiana was born.
The Herrscher of the Void vessel, created through the genes of Sirin and the "real Kiana," who was the Bianka in the original story. The description was so detailed that if Kiana didn't remember her own childhood so clearly...
Kiana's train of thought started to go off the rails. Her mind couldn't help but wander to more distant places.
In the original story, "her" fate, as well as her parents' fate, could be said to be very tragic. Her mother was killed by Otto in the Second Honkai War. When her father was escaping with her... no, with Older Sister Bianka, he was even shot down, causing Older Sister Bianka to lose her memory for a long time.
And then her old man had lost an arm...
Kiana suddenly frowned.
Her mom and dad had also returned to Fire Moth. In the past two days, she had only seen them briefly and had only talked to her mom.
Her old man was wandering around the entire Fire Moth base and had officially registered the name of his exploration team, becoming a famous... famous exploration team member.
But although their communication was not detailed, and there was a tacit understanding that everything was unspoken, Kiana still learned that her old man had almost lost an arm. It was the power left behind by Shu that had helped his arm grow back.
Wow, she owed Shu another favor.
And considering that Older Sister Bianka had been very close to her old man during that time, and there were rumors that Older Sister Bianka was the one who had caused her old man to lose his arm...
Bah, who spread such false news? This lady will definitely beat it to a pulp!
Although both her gut feeling and the reality of the situation indicated that Bianka was definitely not the culprit, the elements were just...
They were just...
Too much of a déjà vu!
The human ability to associate was very powerful, and this ability was often manifested in pattern-matching and labeling...
So Kiana made a very simple substitution—she imagined herself as the Older Sister Bianka in the original story, who had not lost her memory.
Then the Bianka beside her would be...
An artificial human created from her and Sirin's genes?!!!
Kiana gasped, her voice so loud that Bianka couldn't help but look at her.
Perhaps Bianka's gaze was too intense. Kiana clapped a hand over her mouth, her imagination more active than ever before.
Everyone was a gossip, and Kiana, being a Kaslana, was somewhat interested in joining in the fun. So these unusually active brain cells began to rapidly dissect and analyze the idea that had just popped into her mind, at a speed that would have left Mei and Bronya speechless.
For some reason, the first image that appeared in her mind was of her and that short Sirin standing gracefully in a pile of pink bubbles, gazing deeply into each other's eyes. And Bianka, who should have been the protagonist of the story, was wearing a childish student uniform with the distinctive Far East yellow hat and a small schoolbag, blinking her eyes at the side.
A drop of cold sweat quickly dripped down Kiana's forehead, and the hand covering her mouth was trembling slightly.
No... impossible. I only met Sirin recently. Before that, Sirin had always been in the Tower of Babel in Siberia.
Kiana still remembered that the Tower of Babel had been in a state of isolation for many reasons, and Sirin's data was the most important among them. It was impossible for it to have been circulated.
So it was absolutely impossible for her and Sirin to "have a child."
After clearing herself of the suspicion of "cheating" with her extraordinary wisdom, Kiana began to hold her head and think about whose genes had been used to create Bianka.
Yes, Kiana didn't realize that her train of thought had jumped from one circle to another. Substituting a template was indeed convenient for understanding, but it was also easy to lead one's thinking astray and create "stereotypes."
Kiana had gone down such a wrong path...
"Sigh, I guess I still have to find the database to compare..." Eliminating the option of Sirin had already exhausted the wisdom that Kiana had accumulated for a long time. The remaining brainpower only allowed her to conclude that finding the database was the correct solution.
Bianka saw the entire process of Kiana's thinking. She was also in a daze, basically only left with the goal of "finding the database."
So the two looked at each other and continued on.
They walked down the stairs, passing by countless culture tanks. The cylindrical glass reflected the figures of Kiana and Bianka.
Only upon closer inspection could one see that although the people in each culture tank looked almost identical, the age gap between each individual was greater.
Some looked as if they had just been born a few months ago, while others had grown to be about the same age as Bianka. Each individual was curled up in a small culture tank, occasionally blowing a bubble to show that they were still alive.
Kiana stared at these people in a daze, her mind full of the figures in the culture tanks that filled the upper and lower floors in the original story, those figures that resembled her.
They're... exactly the same...
Kiana couldn't help but look at Bianka, who was also staring at her "compatriots."
Older Sister Bianka... could her life be as tragic as "hers" in the original story?
Was she also deceived and bullied by Otto in various ways?
Thinking of Bianka's various subconscious fears of Otto, Kiana's heart sank and she clenched her fists slightly.
Damn you, Otto. After this is over, I'll definitely take Bianka to you and get justice for her! I'll have Shu as a witness!
As for why not just go up and punch Otto in the face and hear the crunching sound?
Otto wasn't a soulless body, and he wasn't that bad. The current Otto could actually be considered a good person.
But—Older Sister Bianka is under my protection now! You can't bully her anymore! If worst comes to worst... I'll have Shu punch Otto! Hasn't he always wanted to do that?
In fact, Shu hadn't thought about that for a long time, but Kiana ultimately didn't know his thoughts. And what was important now was that the two of them had already reached the entrance of the thirteenth underground level.
The operation terminal of the quantum cluster computer, and the cold fusion energy center.