Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 1127 Disdain and Acknowledgment

"..."

Of all the people I've ever met, you're the second most annoying.

After a brief silence, the mermaid statue said coldly:
"I admit you guessed right, but you don't think that by reopening my wounds like this, you'll get me to cooperate with you, do you?"

"of course not."

The Heavenly Cicada smiled and bowed slightly, saying:
"Whether or not you cooperate with us is naturally your own decision. However, you deeply love your people and your world, so no matter how angry you are now or how much you want to kill me, once you calm down, you will eventually choose to agree to our proposal."

To minimize the backlash from time, we need you to go back in time, to a time before the person we need you to solve was even born. Therefore, you have a very, very long time to think things through, and we have ample patience to wait for you to calm down.

"..."

The person they're targeting is Leon, right...? So Leon understood all this, knew I probably couldn't refuse this offer, and that's why he asked at the end if we would become enemies?

After a slight sigh, the mermaid statue glanced at the mermaid who had been helped to lie down by the fountain by the All-Knowing Cicada, then closed its eyes briefly before opening them again, speaking in a cold voice:

Are you planning to play with time?

"It's not so much playing tricks as just a little scheme."

The Heavenly Cicada smiled and said:
“Those who treat time lightly will become puppets of time… We have heard this saying before. Even though the time of the old land has been shattered, it is still not something that can be treated lightly. Therefore, we do not intend to ask you to kill him directly, nor do we dare to ask you to completely change the past.”

What we hope for is for you to return to a time before ours, carrying those memories, and to arrange an exile in the future of our time. Using the eye of that world's ocean, we can send the humanity we want to eliminate to the Ring of Time, giving us a chance to destroy him.

"I think I understand your plans."

After a moment's thought, the mermaid statue said coldly:

"You suffered a loss at the hands of that person, and for some reason you couldn't rush into that world to kill him, so you wanted me, who can resist the erosion of time, to go back to the past and launch an attack in the future of your current time, so that you could send that person out to be killed by you."

"You sent me back in time to create a future favorable to yourselves, not to kill powerful enemies prematurely. This way, you can eliminate your targets while avoiding the backlash from trying to alter time. You've got a clever plan!"

"Your wisdom is astonishing."

After giving one last polite bow, Wanwu Tianchan pointed to the mermaid at the edge of the fountain and said with a smile:
“Besides killing our opponents, we also hope that you can plunder the source of that world as much as possible. The more source of that world you take from it, the more people of your race will be able to be revived like her.”

"This is not a recovery."

After glancing at the mermaid's empty soul, the mermaid statue closed its eyes and said:
“My people are dead after all. Even if you resurrect her body and reunite her scattered soul, her memories and life can never be recovered. Even if she has her original body and soul, she is now a completely new person.”

"this is very simple."

The all-encompassing cicada replied:
“You once controlled the source of the Abyss Realm, where you were an omniscient and omnipotent ruler. As long as you seize enough source, you can even revive the Abyss Realm, whose rules have been shattered. What difficulty is there in implanting the same memories into her?”

"But it's all fake after all!"

"Can't it be fake?"

The Heavenly Cicada smiled and said:
"The flesh and soul born from the root are her own, and the memories you implanted are also her own. So, to you, what difference is there between her and the original her?"

"..."

"I've said everything I needed to say, and I've even sent you a 'sample.' Now, please take your time to think about it."

After smiling at the silent mermaid statue, Wanwu Tianchan reached out and took out a small seashell earring, placing it on the pedestal at the edge of the fountain. Then, she took a few steps back and stepped into the black star gate that suddenly appeared behind her.

"If you've thought it through, please wear that earring... That's all I have to say, I won't bother you any longer."

"..." The same flesh and blood, the same soul, the same memories... Is it the same person?
After the Heavenly Cicada of All Things left, the mermaid statue gazed at the mermaid and earrings on the steps of the fountain pool. After a moment of silence, it finally couldn't resist. Biting its lip, it picked up a wisp of the Origin Color, bent down, and gently wiped it on the mermaid's forehead.

"Well……"

As the color of the source seeped in, the mermaid's blank soul was quickly filled, and her originally somewhat empty eyes gradually regained their luster.

After lying on the edge of the fountain for a while, the mermaid blinked her sea-blue eyes, sat up a little unsteadily, and looked blankly at the mermaid statue in front of her.

I... I was lying on the road, wasn't I? Did I pass out and then crawl back on my own? Am I that amazing?

With a touch of dazedness from just waking up, the mermaid stared at the mermaid statue, whose gaze was as gentle as ever, for a moment. Then, looking at the desolate and dilapidated ruins around her, the bewildered mermaid was startled and suddenly stood up.

How could the sacred site be so desolate?! Even the stone walls have almost completely crumbled? I only went out for a short while and fainted, but it feels like I slept for thousands of years.
"Stop looking, it's been a long time indeed."

"?!!!"

Hearing the voice behind her, the revived mermaid was startled at first, then turned around with a speed that could almost snap her neck, exclaiming with a mixture of surprise and delight:
"Lady Ivangeline?! You've regained consciousness?"

"I am conscious most of the time, but I don't always have the power to communicate with you."

"Oh, so that's it..."

After nodding somewhat, the revived mermaid suddenly realized what was happening and hurriedly asked:

"Lady Ivangeline! You just said you've been talking for a long time, could it be that..."

"It's just what you think."

The mermaid statue closed its eyes briefly, then smiled and said:

"Actually, you tripped and fell on your way home, and then fainted from exhaustion and died instantly. At least several thousand years have passed since then."

"You're saying those strange things again..."

Completely disbelieving the mermaid statue's words, the resurrected mermaid looked around and asked with some concern:

"How did the surrounding area get so bad? Was it an earthquake?"

"more or less."

The mermaid statue smiled and offered no further explanation. Instead, it gazed gently at the worried mermaid and softly inquired:

"I want to ask you a question... If you were to die someday, would you prefer to be resurrected, or would you rather forget everything and start a completely new life?"

What a strange question... So, am I about to die?

After glancing at the mermaid statue with a hint of sorrow in its eyes, the revived mermaid understood and replied with a smile:
"Even though you're here, it's kind of boring being all alone. Let's start a new chapter in our lives... Oh, right!"

She paused for a moment, then looked up at the mermaid statue and gave a big smile.

"Although you sometimes say strange things, if I could have a new life, I would want to be your daughter again~"

Will you be my daughter?

Upon hearing the mermaid's words, the mermaid statue couldn't help but chuckle, then reached out and picked up the earring from the fountain pool.

"I promise you, Wendy."

(End of this chapter)