Ning Xuan sighed and turned to start cleaning up the bodies of the bodyguards.
Ning Yu joined her, helping to clear the scene.
"Sister, listen to me."
Ning Xuan and Ning Yu piled the bodyguards' bodies together before Ning Xuan spoke:
"We are all created lives, born from a certain ritual."
Ning Yu found the words somewhat familiar, as if the Moon Princess had also mentioned that her body was a container.
"The process in between is a bit complicated, but now, within your body, there is a key that connects to the 'Root'."
"You mean the Moon Princess?"
Ning Yu immediately realized what was being referred to when she heard about the 'key to the Root', as there was only one being in her body—the Moon Princess.
By now, all the bodyguards' bodies had been piled up, and Ning Yu skillfully began cleaning the bloodstains on the walls and floor.
Where Ning Xuan's palm had previously extended a blade, a peculiar probe now emerged, its tip glowing with white light.
Ning Yu noticed that the air around the probe's tip seemed to distort.
The white light, like a welding torch, burned and sublimated any flesh it touched into white ash the moment it made contact with the bodyguards' corpses.
In no time, all the bodies had turned into a large pile of ash on the ground.
They had essentially vanished from existence.
After completing this step, Ning Xuan turned back to Ning Yu and said:
"You can think of it that way, but not entirely. The Moon Princess holds the secret to accessing the Root, but she doesn't want anyone to know, that's for sure."
"Then why did she even show up in the first place?"
Ning Yu felt a bit puzzled.
"No, she came to stop those who want to access the Root. If she hadn't helped, the key within your body would have existed in another form."
Ning Xuan shook her head. The ashes of the bodies had already been swept away and flushed down the drain.
Ning Yu watched her actions, sensing that she must have done this many times before.
These two sisters were both cold-blooded killers who didn't bat an eye at disposing of bodies.
"So, why me? Why is the Moon Princess in me and not in you?"
Ning Yu thought of a new question. If only one person, one container, was needed, why were two girls created?
"Sister, you've forgotten."
Ning Xuan suddenly smiled, as if she was quite pleased with this fact.
"It's okay, though. It's better this way."
"Sister doesn't need to know the details. Just know that the Moon Princess is inside you now. That's a reality that can't be changed."
Ning Yu, hearing her stop at the crucial point, couldn't help but ask further:
"So, can you take this from me?"
"What?!"
Ning Xuan's eyes widened in surprise, hardly believing what Ning Yu had just said.
"Sister must have gained a lot of benefits from the Moon Princess, right? Why would you think that?"
"Because it also means trouble. I hate trouble."
Ning Yu shook her head. She didn't like the idea of being a "chosen one" or having a "destined fate." All she wanted now was a peaceful life.
With someone special.
"No, that's not possible."
Ning Xuan firmly declared the impossibility of such a thing.
"Not to mention whether the Moon Princess can be transferred or not, even if it could be done, Sister would die instantly."
"So, don't think about such unrealistic things."
Her expression softened as she looked at Ning Yu and continued:
"But Sister doesn't need to be afraid. I'll protect you."
Ning Yu had just witnessed her killing methods and knew they were incredibly powerful. Although she hadn't awakened any Origin abilities, her cybernetic enhancements seemed to make her combat capabilities extremely formidable.
"What's the extent of your cybernetic enhancement?"
Ning Yu was quite curious about this.
"That's a secret."
Ning Xuan pouted, not wanting to tell Ning Yu, and looked away.
Ning Yu had to give up and instead asked another key question:
"So, who wants to kill me, and who wants to capture me?"
"Your body holds the key to the Root, so we want to capture you."
Ning Xuan pointed at herself.
Ning Yu understood that she wasn't saying she personally wanted to capture her, but rather that the forces behind the scenes wanted to do so.
"And then what?"
Ning Yu pressed further.
"Through some means, open the door to the Root."
Ning Xuan's explanation was vague.
"What's really there?"
Ning Yu was now very curious about this so-called 'Root'.
"Those who have gone there never returned, so I don't know."
Ning Xuan shrugged.
"So you killed them all because you intended to take me away, not to return and report."
Ning Yu was referring to her killing all the bodyguards earlier.
"Yes, from the beginning, we were just tools for the family."
Ning Xuan's expression was indifferent, as if she had long been accustomed to such things. Now, with her cybernetic devices retracted, she looked just like an ordinary girl.
"If I'm really that important, why was I missing at the start of the disaster? Why did you have to come looking for me?"
"And what does the family have to do with this disaster? Where did these T-viruses come from?"
Ning Yu's thoughts raced, and she thought of many more questions, hoping to get answers from Ning Xuan.
"No one knows why Sister disappeared at the time, but I guess it might have something to do with the Moon Princess."
Ning Xuan shook her head.
"As for the T-virus, I'm not very clear. Father and Mother never told me, so what I know is limited."
"But someone wants to kill you, that's true."
"I've noticed signs within our ranks that indicate someone plans to directly kill you to prevent the ritual to the Root."
It seemed that even within the interior, there wasn't complete unity.
"Then why are you helping me?"
Ning Yu looked into Ning Xuan's eyes.
"Even though Sister has lost her memory, I don't blame her."
Ning Xuan didn't seem disappointed or surprised by Ning Yu's question.
"Since we came into this world, no one has truly cared about us, have they?"
She took a step forward, getting closer to Ning Yu.
"We were just tools to achieve a purpose, even Father and Mother saw us that way, after all, we weren't their biological children."
She continued to analyze.
"We can only rely on each other. So Sister can trust me, because only I wish for Sister's happiness and want to protect her at all costs."
"In my eyes, Sister is not a tool, but my beloved Sister."
Ning Yu listened to her words, but a different thought arose in her mind.
She didn't know much about their childhood past, which was somewhat vague to Ning Yu now.
But she understood one thing clearly.
There was someone else who also wished for her happiness and would protect her at all costs.
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grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
mance] After transmigrating for eighteen years, Lin Qi lived as an utterly ordinary herbalist in the countryside. One day, he kindly brought home a sickly, beautiful girl covered in blood. They married in a flash and began their blissful, intimate life together. Right then, his long-delayed system finally activated. [Warning! Host detected in contact with the "Crimson Calamity," the world-ending witch!] Lin Qi looked at the adorable wife currently curled in his arms, who couldn't even open a jar lid and trembled at the sight of a mouse. Lin Qi: "System, are you insane? This is clearly just a weak and delicate sickly girl!" Thus, Lin Qi treated the system as a "Contrast System," where taking care of his wife made him stronger. Combing his wife's hair rewarded him with [Free Attribute Points]. Taking his wife out for sunshine rewarded him with [Forbidden Spell: Arcane Explosion]. Lin Qi: "This soft life tastes so good!" ... Yet, in the eyes of outsiders: The strongest Beastkin Assassin: "That man dissected a Beast King with a common skinning knife! That was a show of force towards the powerful!" The Holy Son of the Radiant Church: "I infiltrated his home as a tutor, but he had me babysit the children... He must have seen through my disguise!" The World-Ending Witch, Felucia: "I hid all the way in the countryside. How is it that the husband I married on a whim is stronger than I was at my peak?"
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
