After a while, Xia Ye stood up again, but she still seemed embarrassed and did not dare to look directly at Lillian. Her eyes were awkwardly locked on an open space next to her, as if a moth beast would appear there at any time. .
"Um... Lilian, before you blew yourself up, you said you were my pet. Is that true?" she asked softly.
"Eh? Sister Xia Ye, did Lilian say this?"
"S-I said it. I definitely said it. Although the last two words are not very clear, judging from the shape of your mouth, you said the word 'pet'."
"But Lillian really doesn't remember."
"...You don't want to deny it, do you?"
"Lillian wouldn't do such a thing, probably... I exploded just after I said that sentence, so I didn't have time to upload it, right?"
"So, are you my pet?"
"Lillian is certainly not a pet or anything like that!"
"All right……"
For some reason, seeing Lilian denying it so firmly, Xia Ye secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Probably deep down in her heart, she didn't want Lillian to be an "item", even if she was the owner of the item.
She turned her head and looked at the girl: "Then... you have to give me an explanation for those secrets in your body, right?"
Lilian had an innocent expression on her face: "Sister Xia Ye, how about we go home and talk slowly?"
Xia Ye shook his head: "No, I still have to go home."
"Eh? What else can I do to Sister Xia Ye?"
"punish."
"P-punishment?"
"Well, you made such a big fool out of me, and I must come back with revenge, so when you get home, just wait to be punished by me."
Lillian looked at Xia Ye, and the look in her crimson eyes was clearly serious. She hesitated for a moment, then nodded with a slightly red cheek: "Oh, I understand."
"..." Xia Ye didn't expect that the other party would agree so easily.
"Then...Sister Xia Ye, can we go home first and then explain while punishing?" the girl asked again.
"No, you won't be able to speak during the punishment."
"oh."
"So, if you definitely want to explain it after you get home, you can only accept the punishment now."
"Now? This, here?"
Xia Ye nodded.
"Woo..."
Lilian hesitated for a while and finally said: "Sister Xia Ye, do you still remember the story I told you in the past? The story about my mother."
"Remember." Xia Ye nodded, "You said that your mother was a traveling witch. She left Debsotta shortly after giving birth to you. Because she felt that you had no talent, she did not take you on the trip with her."
"Hmm..." Lilian responded, but did not continue.
"Why, is that story a lie to me?"
"No, Sister Xia Ye, it's just... Lilian omitted some content."
Xia Ye didn't answer and waited patiently for her.
After a while, the girl finally began to say:
“My mother is a traveling witch, and to her, nothing is more important than exploring the mystery of the witch’s contract.
"So, when she gave birth to me and raised me a little older, she started what she was most interested in, studying the mystery of the witch's contract - using my body."
"Huh??" Xia Ye looked at her in surprise.
Lilian nodded and said: "I am the daughter of a traveling witch after all. How could I not have anything special at all? Therefore, for my mother, of course I am a research material that cannot be missed. However, the experiment is also It’s not as scary as I imagined. For me, it’s just spending two or three hours a day doing various inspections, or signing and erasing all kinds of weird contracts. As for the rest of the time, Mother While everyone is busy with her research or other things, I can play as I want.
"This life lasted for more than half a year. Mother's research finally bore fruit. Based on my body, she developed a brand new contract. This is a contract that can separate and recombine consciousness, cup, and body. It's called 'Node'. And I am the first and only signer of the 'Node' contract.
"From a research perspective, Mother has achieved great success, but from a practical perspective, the 'Node' contract is a failure.
"First of all, I am the only one who is adaptable to this contract. At that time, with the help of Mother in Shangcheng District, Hua Mo'er found many 'volunteers' to test this new contract, but in the end no one successfully signed it...
Lilian said this, hesitated for a few seconds, and added:
"To be precise, no one successfully signed it and survived."
"..." Xia Ye felt a chill for no reason.
"But even so, Mother does not think it is unacceptable, because 'just because a research result is not universal, it does not mean it has no value' - these were her original words. But the next discovery made her completely Admitted his failure.
"After trying hundreds of contracts, she finally determined that the 'node' contract is very exclusive. In other words, since I signed the 'node', it is almost impossible to sign any other contracts, even if the few who can sign it are , the adaptability is also very poor, and the node contract cannot be erased, which makes me a person with almost no role.
"And mother can't even determine the direction of improvement, because there is no experimental subject for comparison. She often talks to herself, saying that even she can't figure out how she made this contract and how she made it. Let me sign...
"In this way, after trying for a while, my mother finally gave up completely. She gave me some property, took all the experimental data, and left Debsota without looking back. At first, I still I was immersed in the sadness of being abandoned by her, but soon I discovered that the really terrible things were just beginning...
"One month after Mother left, I was caught by people from 'Aether Exploration'. They took me to the uptown area, declared me a 'dangerous uncontained individual', and imprisoned me..."
"But, you should have more than one body, right?" Xia Ye asked.
"That's right, so they imprisoned all my bodies. Even if I transfer to other bodies, it doesn't make any sense."
"..."
"In the following period, they started various experiments on my body. But unlike my mother, they didn't care about my feelings, or even my life and death - anyway, even if they broke it, there would still be another one. Just one body, as long as you don't damage too many at once, because the 'node' contract can automatically replenish new bodies regularly..."
Lillian told a very scary thing in an unusually calm tone.
"But you are the daughter of a traveling witch after all..." Xia Ye couldn't help but ask, "Don't they have any scruples?"
Lilian shook her head: "I thought the same way at that time. Even at the beginning, I kept shouting, 'Mother must come back to save me' and so on, but mother never appeared. Later, I finally Understand, she has left forever and will never come to save me again..."
She was silent for a few seconds, then continued: "After countless experiments, 'Ether Exploration' has really achieved two results. The first one is to create a new contract based on the 'Node' contract, which The effect is weaker than that of 'Node', but the advantage is that it can be engraved on specially manufactured items. Based on the item, people can also obtain abilities similar to 'Node'. This contract is called 'Mask'."
"Mask?!" Xia Ye suddenly thought of those masked witches from 'Venture Capital Part 7'.
Lilian understood her thoughts and nodded: "Sister Xia Ye guessed it right. Those masked witches are wearing items with the 'mask' contract engraved on their faces."
"The second result is that they finally allowed me to successfully sign two other contracts, namely 'Blindsight' and 'Witch's Cry'. Sister Xia Ye has seen the abilities of these two contracts, among which 'Blindsight' 'It can make the people around you unable to sense the person who made the contract, and 'Witch's Cry' can make the person who made the contract self-destruct when they are about to die, causing huge damage..."
"But why do they want you to sign these two..." Xia Ye stopped mid-sentence.
She thought of something.
Sure enough, Lilian said: "Because they finally found a use for me. The 'Node' contract gave me a body that can be consumed almost infinitely. With the addition of 'Blindsight' and 'Witch's Cry', I became A very useful assassination tool. They put a collar around my neck. After I approached the target with 'blind vision', they activated the collar, putting me in a near-death state, triggering 'Witch's Cry', and killing the target. Exploded to death..."
(End of chapter)
