"I never thought that human memories could be bottled."
Soshyan looked at Erda's face.
"Thinking about it this way, when the gods look at our lives, they must be as drunk as sipping a glass of the purest wine."
"I don't dare call myself God."
Erda smiled and picked up a piece of candy on the golden plate held by the doll and handed it to Soshyan.
After taking it, Soshyan hesitated for a moment and put it in his mouth.
The next moment, an indescribable sweetness spread in his mouth, or the taste was not sweet, but "joy". It seemed that he saw Veronica smiling and handing a swaddle to him, and after he took it The mood I felt at that moment when I saw a cute little face sleeping in a baby.
The sugar is very small and the flavor disappears quickly.
Erda looked at the subtle expression on Soshyan's face and nodded.
"Very good, you can feel the taste of happiness. You are much stronger than that old dog and donkey. Don't listen to his nonsense. What is the third option? Do you think he will really sacrifice himself to fulfill his child? He is just here Testing! Ever since I’ve known him, he’s been very fond of testing others, even testing human nature.”
As she said that, she handed over another piece, but Soshyan waved her hand.
"That's enough. Thank you, Ms. Erda. This is a very rare taste, but there are many people, even the original body, who have never experienced this taste for a day from birth to death. I feel guilty."
When he said this, Erda withdrew her hand and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.
"You said you had questions to ask me before."
"Yes, I have countless questions to ask. There are as many questions as I want to ask as the stars in the Milky Way light up and go out several times, but I know time may not allow it, so I only have the most important things. "
"what?"
"First of all, did Li really kill the soldiers of the Eleventh Legion? Did he collude with the Necrontyr? And do you know this?"
Erda didn't answer him, just raised his hand and swept around.
"Look at this place, Soshyan, this place seems so spacious and empty. This was originally the place I prepared for him and them. I will accompany the children here to spend the most vulnerable period until they have more time. Independent thinking, becoming the person they are willing to be. But now it is just an empty nest. This is almost a curse for a mother. I know that I was not a competent mother, and I regretted it. , I was also angry about this. When Erebus found me, I realized that I should do something. At least I can continue to protect them in another form, which can be regarded as my salvation."
After listening, Soshyan was silent for a moment, and then said in a slightly sullen voice:
"So, you know, right? You know what Lee did, but you chose to condone it."
"He won't hurt you, nor will he hurt the people around you. It's just that he has his own ideas. It's not a big deal."
At this moment, Soshiyang suddenly remembered what Elena once said to him - those who have become subspace existences cannot use common sense and logic to recognize, and their actions are not entirely based on reality. Their essence is what determines their behavior.
At this time, Erda seemed to be unable to reason with common sense. She seemed gentle but had a suffocating stubbornness.
"He did something like this, and you think it's no big deal!?"
"Did Lee do anything to hurt you?"
"Those soldiers left behind by the Eleventh Legion——"
Erda waved slightly.
"Just some Space Marines. They're not even your men. You don't know them."
Soshyan was a little speechless, but he really couldn't tell what bad things Li had done to him.
But he also saw that Erda had an unreasonable indulgence in Li, which was a kind of mother's completely unreasonable doting on her child.
The source of Erda's current power is likely to be infinite maternal nature, and at the same time, it is accompanied by endless indifference to all living beings. This is a kind of love that is almost selfish.
"Ms. Erda, do you feel you owe Li a debt?"
Hearing this, Erda sighed softly after a moment of silence, and took a dirty, bandaged humanoid doll from the doll's hand nearby.
"Since his birth, Solomon and I have regarded him as a test subject, just a tool, but he still trusts us, respects us, and loves us. I can see that he is very eager to be recognized by Solomon, but As a warrior, he fell far short of Solomon's expectations. Even what he was best at was painting rather than killing. Solomon threw him aside like trash and asked him to lead a cleaning team to hunt those abandoned in experiments. He didn’t say anything about the mutated creature in the sewers, and stayed in the sewers for twenty years. It wasn’t until I was pregnant with Xerxes that Solomon called him back from the sewers at my request and asked him to guard me. During the time when Solomon and I parted ways, he was always by my side. He may not be the strongest child, but he must be the kindest and gentlest, so I believe he will be successful in whatever he does. You should also trust him for your own reasons.”
In the past, Soshyan wouldn't have believed Erda's words, but after knowing that Erda was not a "person" at all, Soshyan could hear more from it.
"No disrespect, Ms. Erda, but Li is actually just a substitute for you to fill the vacancy in your heart after throwing away the children."
Erda narrowed her eyes, but her hand holding the doll gradually became harder.
"Do you really love him that much? If, if Xerxes was still alive, would you really treat both of them equally as your children? I guess. Probably not. There is a high probability that Li will return in the end. To the sewers.”
As he said that, Soshyan suddenly raised his head and laughed.
"Hahaha! Kind! Gentle! Ms. Erda, do you know? If I were Li, I would only be in pain! I would only hate! I would only be angry!"
When he lowered his head, his expression was nothing but anger.
"Ms. Erda, believe me, Li is not who you think he is. I might have hated him before, but now I just pity him. If it were me, my brothers would all be demigods and have immortal lives. They all have the power to crush the sun, moon and stars. They are supported by all the people and have thousands of troops under their command. They share a huge empire with my father. However, I am just a garbage in the sewer, a shady rat. My father and Mother's failure, believe me, ma'am, I will hate every one of you, every one of you."
Soshiyang's words made Erda very angry. Her whole face turned pale, and some kind of power was growing crazily. Even the dolls around her were so frightened that they cried.
"Soshyan!"
In front of Soshyan, Erda's body began to grow rapidly, taking on the form of a translucent ghost. Layers of spinning threads and gauze covered her body and fluttered around her, and her face was even more... There are countless changes in an instant. Sometimes she is a black woman, like a statue carved from obsidian, looking majestic due to the accumulation of a long life. Sometimes she is like a young girl, filled with infinite beauty and the firepower of life, tall and tall. The scythe wielded by her limbs shone under the blood moon, and sometimes she turned into an old woman. Her skin was as rough as a withered olive, her body was like a twisted tree root, and her thick-boned fingers froze everything she grabbed.
But no matter what the shape, her belly is swollen, as if she is pregnant with a baby that will never be born.
(End of chapter)
