Chapter 142
Chapter 142
The train cut across the streets and entered a long, dim tunnel. Darkness swallowed everyone at once, leaving only the electronic instruments inside the Transit Pod glowing faintly.
“They all came from the Surface World?” Wei Sen asked.
CC said, “Mm.”
“Are any of them from Civilization City?”
“No.”
Xu You rubbed her chin and said, “I have another question. They all came from the Surface, and their right eyes were gouged out to keep Nüwa from discovering them. Then… since we came from the Surface too, does that mean our eyes have to be gouged out as well?!”
Lin Xiaoxue and Chen Lin’s faces went pale with horror.
Gouging out eyes… Wasn’t that way too cruel?!
“No,” CC replied.
The group let out a breath of relief.
“Because…” CC’s expression turned exceptionally serious as she continued, “men and women are not the same species. Nüwa can sense their existence at any time, but she cannot sense ours.”
The moment she finished speaking, everyone looked at one another.
Men and women were not the same species???
Only Wei Sen’s eyes brightened slightly. It was exactly the same as her original guess!
Seeing this, CC continued explaining, “They… at most, can be considered a new type of carbon-based life-form. We women are the ones with the purest human bloodline!”
“Wait, people really can be different from other people?!” Xu You asked in disbelief.
“Is that so strange? Life has always existed in many different forms. It’s just that there are many things ordinary people can never know. You should be grateful you were able to come to Taoyuan and learn truths that many people will never know before they die.”
Wei Sen’s tone turned grave. “So they all have that [Heart]?”
CC’s lips curved faintly. “Yes. And on the Surface, every move a woman makes can be monitored by a corresponding man. He might be your father, your husband, or even a complete stranger with no connection to you at all.”
Hearing this, Wei Sen understood at once. So this was why Li Chang had always been able to know what she was doing!
It was like they had a 360-degree surveillance system with no blind spots constantly watching them!
And even though those men clearly knew their every move, when they interacted with them, they still pretended they knew nothing. They acted so naturally, almost without a single flaw…
“Then won’t we be monitored after coming here?” Xu You asked, half convinced and half doubtful.
“No. The Elder has a way to block their surveillance.”
Wei Sen looked at CC in confusion. “How do they do it?”
“I’d like to know that too, but unfortunately, I’m not qualified to know at that level yet.” CC shook her head.
“What do you mean?” Chen Lin swallowed, then spoke in disbelief. “What is the [Heart] Sister Sen mentioned? All men… aren’t the same species… Does that mean even our own family members aren’t?”
“They aren’t! Don’t trust any man!” CC’s tone was exceptionally grave. “They’re only playing specific roles! All the good they do for you, all the bad they do to you, everything that happens, is based solely on the roles they’ve been assigned!”
Lin Xiaoxue shook her head again and again. “Impossible! My dad… He was so good to me! There’s no way he’s some new carbon-based life-form like you say! The way he treated me was real!”
“I know it’s hard for you to accept this all at once, but I’m sorry. This is the first truth you need to know,” CC said.
Wei Sen looked solemnly at the others and said, “What she’s saying is true. The [Heart] I mentioned was taken from inside a man’s body. It was a man-made object with a metallic texture. If I’m not mistaken, every man has a [Heart] like that inside his body.”
And something like that couldn’t possibly have been surgically implanted afterward. At the very least, our bodies could never withstand having a foreign object like that transplanted into a ventricle.”
“Impossible… I don’t believe it…” Lin Xiaoxue bit her lip, her eyes red.
She had just been told, out of nowhere, that her own father wasn’t even the same species as her, and that everything between them had been nothing but role-playing?
That was even more absurd than saying she had been picked up from a trash can!
CC said earnestly, “I know you can’t possibly believe this right away. Once this mission is over, I’ll give you something that will let you see the real world for yourselves.”
Xu You, Chen Lin, and Lin Xiaoxue all wore exceptionally grave expressions. Each of them had an extremely important male figure in her life, so asking them to believe what CC had said was indeed difficult.
Wei Sen, however, was very calm. Back when she killed Li Chang, she had done it to verify this very theory. Now, she had finally gotten a definite answer.
“What about the men in Civilization City?” Wei Sen asked. “Are they different from us too?”
“No. They’re the same as us. They’re true humans!”
Wei Sen lowered her head in thought. If that was the case, then Huang Xinze, Lao Wang, and the others were all ordinary humans.
Then what about Lin Ze? Could he be New Human too?
But so far, every man discovered in the Eerie World had come from Civilization City. Lin Ze was the only one from the Real World, and he had been trapped in the Eerie World for a full fifty years.
As Wei Sen thought this over, she asked, “Can the New Human species enter the Eerie World?”
CC looked at her and said, “No! The Eerie World is a world only pure humans can enter!”
Then… Lin Ze had to be a true human.
Could it be?
Wei Sen suddenly thought of something and continued asking, “How long ago did this so-called New Human species appear?”
CC looked at her in surprise. “Why do you ask?”
“What? Am I not allowed to?”
CC hid the surprise in her eyes, shook her head, and said, “I don’t know. That question is no different from asking me when humans first appeared.”
Wei Sen sank into thought.
What exactly did Lin Ze being trapped in the Eerie World for fifty years have to do with New Human?
And why was Lin Ze so special?
Could he have lied?
CC probably truly didn’t know the answers to those questions. After all, she hadn’t even known there were men from the Real World in the Eerie World.
With that in mind, Wei Sen changed the question. “Are they our enemies?”
“When you didn’t know the truth, they weren’t enemies. But now that I’ve told you the truth, they are.”
“Do we kill them?” Wei Sen’s tone was perfectly casual.
The other three stared at her in shock.
“Sister Sen, you’re joking, right? Even if… even if what Big Sister CC said is true, I-I still won’t let anyone hurt my dad!” Lin Xiaoxue said solemnly.
Chen Lin lowered her pale face. “This is too unbelievable…”
CC patted Lin Xiaoxue on the shoulder and said, “Don’t be nervous. As long as you pretend you don’t know anything, you can still get along with them the same way you did before.”
Then CC looked at Wei Sen and said, “Killing is illegal. And besides, we don’t advocate solving problems with violence.”
Xu You’s voice was heavy. “So we can’t let them know that we already know the truth.”
“Mm.”
“What happens if they find out?”
CC said, “We die.”