Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Experiment X-10! Tragedy of Cocolia!
"You mean..."
After hearing what Mo Chen said, Cocolia seemed confused for a moment.
Mo Chen's expression became more serious as he spoke:
"Cocolia, there will be many cruel things waiting for you in the future. You will do all kinds of bad things to protect what you want to protect, your hands will be stained with blood for the ideals you pursue, and you may even take the initiative to sacrifice the people you want to protect..."
"But no matter what you do and what you pay for your goals, you should never forget why you did all this!"
"Remember all of this, and you will still have a chance of redemption."
"This..."
The young Cocolia had a dazed look on her face.
She could hear the heaviness in Mo Chen's words, and she could hear the earnestness and sincerity in Mo Chen's words as he told her all this.
However, she was still young and could not understand it all, and it was hard for her to imagine what she would be like after all those long years.
In the end, she could only nod her head, half-comprehendingly, and said:
"I understand. I will keep it in mind, Master Mo Chen. Moreover, as long as you are here, even if I do something wrong, you will help me correct it, right?"
"…"
In response to Cocolia's words, Mo Chen just remained silent for a while.
Cocolia didn't understand why at the time, but she soon understood.
The next day, when the Siberian army came to track down the man named Mo Chen, Mo Chen had already disappeared from the Cocolia Orphanage.
In order to prevent the incident of his killing a high-ranking military official from affecting Cocolia, Mo Chen took everything on himself in advance, and then left without saying goodbye, as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth.
Cocolia was grateful for this, but also very frightened.
She tried hard to find Mo Chen's whereabouts but could not find any trace of him.
In desperation, she had to return to the orphanage alone and sadly remembered every word Mo Chen told her, fighting for her own wishes, and at the same time never giving up her bottom line as a human being.
However, it is obvious that she now does not understand what the bottom line is as a human being.
She also didn't understand what she had to pay in order to survive in this world and protect what she wanted to protect...
[I didn't expect the result to be like this. Mo Chen had to leave because he angered the military]
[Why didn't Mo Chen show the same powerful strength as last time? Although he is still very strong, I still feel that he is still within the scope of a human.]
[Yeah, what about Mo Chen's Musou no Hitotachi? If he had that ability, why would he waste words? He could just kill all the so-called military directly.]
[Could it be that the Mo Chen of this time period is not the same as before? Or, this is actually the Mo Chen from a long time ago, when he was not that strong yet?]
[Hey, but the time point is clearly 2000? ]
[No, although it is also the year 2000, everything in this video is different from the previous one, as if they are... two different worlds?!]
[Could it be that Mo Chen is a time traveler?!]
…
Anti-Entropy Corporation.
After watching the video, Seele finally realized what mother Cocolia had done to protect the children in their orphanage.
At the same time, she was also very curious about the man named Mo Chen.
Unexpectedly, the other party not only saved the Herrscher of the Void, Sirin but also did so much for her adoptive mother and the orphanage where she was born.
Of course, she had not forgotten the bet she had made with Cocolia, and asked hesitantly:
"Mom Cocolia, what do you think of this video now?"
After saying this, she panicked a little, worried that the other party might say, "This is all a lie, there is no such person as Mo Chen."
But what she didn't expect was that Cocolia was currently staring at the video with a dazed look on her face.
A pair of eyes were slightly red and swollen, with clear tears appearing...
"That's..."
Seeing this scene, Seele was horrified. She obviously didn't expect Cocolia to react like this after watching the video. It was completely beyond her expectations!
"Mom Cocolia? You...what's wrong with you?"
Faced with Seele's panic, Cocolia herself did not expect that she would have such a big change in emotions and hurriedly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hands.
But she didn't expect that her tears would increase more and more, and she couldn't control them.
"I...I am..."
In a panic, Cocolia quickly lowered her head, not wanting anyone to see her embarrassing appearance.
For this reason, Seele immediately showed a look of surprise and looked at Cocolia in shock as she couldn't stop crying in front of her.
This completely broke her past impression and made her realize a fact immediately.
'This brother named Mo Chen really exists!'
At this moment, Seele really wanted to communicate with another self and tell her about the shock in her heart.
But unfortunately, since the end of the Honkai, the other self in her body has completely lost its response. No matter how Seele calls, she can never get any response.
Sometimes, Seele even thought that she had completely disappeared and would never be seen again...
"If one day, I could meet Brother Mo Chen again, maybe the other me would wake up again..."
For some reason, Seele instinctively had this thought in her heart.
…
In the video.
Time began to pass quickly.
After Mo Chen left, Cocolia began to take care of the orphanage alone, using her own strength to protect the children in the orphanage.
With the help of what Mo Chen taught her, she grew up quickly and quickly became a well-known Frost Witch on the Siberian snowfields. She also adopted more and more poor children who were displaced and homeless due to the Honkai.
She completely transferred her feelings for Mo Chen to caring for all the children and was willing to give everything to protect these little ones who were as innocent and pitiful as she once was.
To this end, Cocolia voluntarily turned into evil, with her hands stained with blood, and used all means to eradicate dissidents, defeat competitors, and kill those who coveted herself and her children!
She even took the initiative to join the Anti-Entropy Organization and, on the condition of helping the Anti-Entropy Organization's work, obtained financial and technical support from Anti-Entropy to ensure the supply of children in the orphanage.
Cocolia thought that she had done her best, and as long as she continued to develop in this way, she could protect what she wanted to protect without touching the bottom line.
However, she eventually faced the worst choice - the X-10 experiment.
The so-called X-10 experiment, in simple terms, is a research project proposed by some scientists from the Anti-Entropy Organization.
They believe that through special quantum experiments, they can find a way to make the body fully adapt to the Honkai energy so that the children in the orphanage can become new humans who can survive the Honkai.
Experiments require test subjects, and some scientists at Anti-Entropy hope to use the orphans in the Cocolia Orphanage, who have experienced the baptism of Honkai, to serve as test subjects and dedicate themselves to science.
Cocolia initially dismissed the proposal, not thinking that it was necessary for the children in her orphanage to suffer for no reason.
However, as time went by, the children in the orphanage gradually grew up, and those children who had been eroded by the Second Eruption Energy and lacked resistance to Honkai energy were all on the verge of death due to the gradual erosion of Honkai energy.
They must find a way to solve the erosion of Honkai energy to allow them to survive.
Faced with such a desperate result, Cocolia fell into bitterness. She finally remained silent for a long time facing the room where Mo Chen had been and accepted the proposal of the anti-entropy scientist.
"It's not for saving the world, nor for the fate of mankind. I just want my children to survive in this broken world, that's all."
With such determination, Cocolia officially launched the X-10 experiment.
Cocolia began to record the research data every day and started to screen the children who were most likely to be suitable for the experiments.
After the test, Cocolia originally wanted to choose Bronya, who had the highest resistance to Honkai energy, as the experimental subject, but Seele suddenly revealed her Stigmata during the process, which shocked Cocolia, and she chose to let her replace Bronya.
When the experiment began, Seele herself became the victim of the X-10 experiment. She turned into a quantum state and disappeared completely.
Cocolia was very angry and distressed, but there was nothing she could do.
After learning all this, Bronya volunteered to participate in the subsequent X-10 experiment in an attempt to save Seele, but her legs were destroyed by Honkai energy and her emotional center collapsed. She was also unable to save the quantized Seele.
Cocolia was completely devastated by the sacrifice of her two beloved children.
[There must be something hateful about pitiful people. This is what Cocolia is talking about.]
[Alas, she didn't have to do this]
[Everything is destined. Cocolia's choice determines her final outcome.]
[Her approach is exactly the same as Otto's experiment in the Babylon laboratory. They are all so-called sacrificing a few to save the majority.]
[This behavior is ultimately selfish to the extreme]
[So what about Mo Chen? Did he just disappear like that? Why didn't he come out to stop Cocolia?]
[I don't know, but even if Mo Chen stood up, could he really stop Cocolia now? When a person is shrouded in obsession, all the words of outsiders can't stop her.]
[That's right, if Cocolia can be convinced, the few words that Mo Chen left before he left will be enough for her to see the reality and make the right choice.]
…
At the same time, Cocolia in the video became more and more crazy.
She hated herself for not being able to keep her promise with Mo Chen and hated herself for not being able to maintain her bottom line.
However, she had already stepped into the abyss and could no longer turn back without realizing it.
She had to conduct more subsequent experiments, sacrificing others to save Seele and Bronya.
Cocolia even set her sights on Mei Raiden from Nagazora and implanted the Gem of Conquest into her body for an experiment in order to seize the power of the Herrscher!
Everything happened just as Mo Chen had predicted.
If the wicked lose their bottom line, what awaits them is no longer just a just judgment, but an endless abyss that will swallow them up completely...
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