Mercury was silent for a moment, and then said: "That is just a last resort choice made in the worst case scenario.

I have re-evaluated the current situation. There is energy in the base. We only need to transfer the food conversion system to the base. Then we will not be short of water and food for the time being.

As long as the enemy doesn't discover this place, then we are all safe.

The status quo has changed.

An excellent adult with strategic vision is more important than an unknown embryo.

Our first priority now is to ensure your safety.

If you need to solve your physical needs, you can go to the virtual training room of the Kuixing Ship, which allows you to enter the virtual world.

There you can find everything you want to find."

Xia Lian opened his eyes, supported his head with one hand, leaned his elbow on the bed, looked at Mercury and joked: "You really have no sense of humor."

"There are no cells with this name in the human body." Mercury said, "If they really existed, they wouldn't be used to transform humans."

Xia Lian stared at Mercury, with an unknown glimmer in his eyes, and suddenly spoke.

"I have heard of the Circe project before. The military used artificial wombs to cultivate embryos, provide targeted education during their growth, and then modify them.

They do not have their own lives, cannot control their own destiny, and do not even have the right to choose to be normal human beings. They are not allowed to have feelings.

From the moment I was born, I lived for the Helios family..."

After a pause, Xia Lian looked into Mercury's eyes and asked.

"Do you hate the principality? Or, do you hate the Helios family?"

Mercury turned her head and looked at Xia Lian. Her expression did not change much. Instead, she was very calm.

"What answer do you want from me?"

Xia Lian raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm just out of curiosity, so you don't need to answer."

"No one can absolutely control his own destiny and his own life form.

What do you think I should hate?

Do you hate them for bringing me into this world without my consent?

Would you hate this?

I never think about these meaningless things."

"Is this what you really think?" Xia Lian said.

"Yes." Mercury said with a normal expression.

Xia Lian continued to stare into Mercury's eyes. After a moment, he looked away and smiled.

"Give me a few micro-nanocapsules, and if you can, load all the knowledge in your mind into them."

"Yes." Mercury responded, she continued to raise her hand, and the micro-nanoworms in her body combined into two capsules in her hand that were similar to the capsules Xia Lian had eaten before.

Xia Lian took the capsule, looked at it, and suddenly said.

“Knowledge and thoughts may be instilled, but realistic factors cannot be changed, and thinking cannot be erased.

In this world, there are truths that can never be changed."

Xia Lian raised his head and looked at Mercury, and said.

"do you think so?"

A glimmer of light flashed for a moment in Mercury's calm eyes, and then she nodded to Xia Lian.

"right."

Xia Lian smiled and waved his hand, "Go out, I want to rest."

Mercury bowed to Xia Lian and bowed, then turned around and opened the door to leave, but then, Xia Lian's voice came from behind her.

"The black gothic dress you wore at the beginning was very nice, please wear that one from now on."

Mercury stopped at the door for a moment, without looking back, he just answered.

"yes...."

Then she opened the door and left. Her steps were slightly brisk and she seemed to be in a good mood.

.....

Xia Lian watched as Mercury completely left his sight, and he put the two pills into his pocket.

The girl's heart is not as firm as she appears.

It's not that she has a rebellious heart, but that she is confused, confused about her own existence, confused about whether she is a real person or a container that carries certain thoughts.

But at this moment, she was no longer confused.

[After receiving the wisdom from Athena, I somehow started to like preaching. 】

Xia Lian shook his head mockingly, lay on the bed and slowly closed his eyes.

But then, Aisha's voice came to his ear through the communicator.

"Your Highness, something happened."

Xia Lian opened his eyes again, but this time, what he saw was not the dormitory of the Kuixing Ship, but the image transmitted through Aisha's perspective.

This is one of the functions of as, sharing perspective.

From Elsa's perspective, there is a star map on the projection screen on the right side of the monitoring screen.

On the star map, about 0.0023 light-years away from this star system, a red dot is flickering slightly.

Xia Lian stared at the red dot and asked, "What is that?"

"According to the signal frequency, this is a distress signal." Aisha replied.

"The distress model, so close?" Xia Lian said with some confusion, "There shouldn't be a space route nearby. How could anyone come this way?"

"Perhaps someone from Bahram?" Aisha said.

Xia Lian shook his head and said, "There is no need for them to release a distress signal."

"I participated in the escort of the Arcadia Space Route three years ago."

At this time, Wang Zhen joined the communication channel, and he was in the main control room at the moment.

"At that time, interstellar pirates were often raging near that route, and some of them would imitate public distress signals to attract nearby ships in an area that was not frequently sailed.

At that time, many merchant ships were deceived by this distress signal and were robbed.

Later, the principality issued a temporary notice, informing all merchant ships conducting trade not to respond to distress signals and that warships would go to the rescue.

Nowadays, pirates are rarely seen on the Acadia route, but I heard that the pirates finally fled to the Principality of Bahram."

"You mean..." Xia Lian frowned, "The other party might be a pirate?"

"They are too close to us." Wang Zhen said with a serious face, "Our space concussion bomb was dropped twenty light years away, and the enemy may be searching for us nearby.

Such an obvious distress signal will undoubtedly attract the fleet of the Bahram Principality, which is searching for us more than ten light years away."

"It seems that one wave has not subsided, but another wave has arisen." Xia Lian whispered softly, "Alaya, do the blessings of these three goddesses still bring some troublesome buffs?"

[Perhaps, Greek mythology also talks about cause and effect and fate. Achilles soaked in the water of the Styx and gained an invulnerable body, but he also suffered a fatal injury to his ankle.

Paris obtained the most beautiful woman in the world, but it also led to the Trojan War. There are gains and losses. You have received the blessings of the three goddesses, but you also have to withstand the corresponding tests.

However, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. Hera's blessing will allow you to have vast land and royal power in the future, and the beauty god's blessing will allow you to have the most beautiful woman in the world.

Before these two blessings come true, the difficulties you encounter may speed up the time when these two blessings come true.】

Alaya's voice continued to ring in his mind.

Xia Lian's expression was slightly subtle, "You mean, my biological father in this life may have been killed by me?"

Suddenly I felt so filial.

[There is only this possibility. The most subtle thing about fate is its uncertainty. 】

Xia Lian was speechless. He came back to his senses and continued to stare at the red dot on the screen.

"Is the Kuixing Ship still capable of fighting?"

Wang Zhen thought for a while and said, "The backup energy is still 30%, and the weapon system is still complete. It should be able to fire a few shots.

However, if the opponent has an energy shield, it may only be able to break the energy shield."

"Is it possible to break it, or must it be broken?" Xia Lian asked.

"Kuixing Ship is a strategic assault ship and the latest generation of warship.

It's not in the same dimension as those pirates' spaceships at all. As long as the other party is not loading Helios Field, then it's no different from paper to us." Wang Zhen said seriously.

"What if the other party has more than one starship?" Elsa said.

Wang Zhen shook his head, "This is not a chaotic star area. The pirates wandering around here are usually just single starships. Because it is convenient to escape, the targets of large fleet-type pirates are too large, so they are the primary target of the two countries.

This kind of pirate can only be in the Chaos Sector, not here."

Aisha nodded, and then asked Xia Lian in the communication channel, "Your Highness, do you have any plans?"

Xia Lian watched the signal.

"The stupidest thing in the world is to sit back and wait for luck to come."


Chapter completed!