Hao Ren stared into the eyes of the elf "girl" and asked extremely seriously.
As soon as he asked this question, Lily, who was looking out of the window to look for something delicious on the street, suddenly turned her head: "Ah? Didn't the landlord confirm her identity before?"
"All our confirmations are just what she claimed to be," Hao Ren leaned back in his seat, "I have been thinking about it for a long time and finally decided to ask you, is it really Lorissa?"
The elf frowned her beautiful eyebrows slightly, but her expression did not change. It seemed that Hao Ren's sudden question was not enough to shake her mind. In fact, since leaving the Dark Mountains, this "ancient magic emperor" has been there.
Quickly calming down, it seemed that the impact of the passage of thousands of years only made her shaken for a short period of time, and soon she returned to her state as the "Elf Queen".
"Why did you suddenly ask that?" After a few seconds of silence, she asked calmly.
Seeing the other party's reaction, Hao Ren showed a genuine expression and relaxed: "Do you know about the Tree of Life plan?"
"Tree of Life Project?" Lolisa's expression finally showed a hint of doubt: it was obviously the first time she heard this term, "There is a tree of life in the legend of elves, which is the first tree in the world.
Elves are all born from the leaves of that tree. But the Tree of Life project... I have never heard of it."
Vivian seemed to understand Hao Ren's thoughts. She first showed a surprised expression, and then looked at Lorissa in confusion.
"The Tree of Life Project, in short, is to use the power of source blood and the esoteric magic of the elves to create an artificial plant that is infinitely close to the legendary 'Tree of Life', and then use the 'Original Branches' simulated by the Tree of Life to fuse it
The tentacles of the eldest son, thereby sealing the eldest son. This plan ultimately failed because the gap between the artificially simulated 'original life' and the eldest son born from the real original seed was too great, and the tree of life was burned by the backlash of energy."
Hao Ren explained a few words, his eyes falling on Luo Lisa's face, "The initiator of this plan is Luo Lisa."
The elf blinked, and her face showed neither the fear of being exposed, nor the anxiety and nervousness of being busy thinking of excuses. She just looked at Hao Ren with a half-smile, and then nodded noncommittally: "Oh, so that's it...
"
"So who are you?" Vivian touched her chin, and faint bloody runes appeared around her, "Why do you call yourself 'Elven Queen Lolisa'?"
"I just call myself Lolisa. The name 'Queen of Elfs' has always been given to me by you," Lolisa said calmly, "I have never called myself the Queen of Elfs. And the name Queen of Elfs does not
Appropriately at that time, our name for the emperor was the Magic Emperor."
"Your name is indeed Lorissa?" Lily also realized it at this time. She stared at the elf in front of her, "Then what is your relationship with the legendary elf woman...oh, the Magic Emperor?"
"In this case, I'd better say it clearly. I am her, but I am not her," Lorissa adjusted the lace edge of her dress and sat upright. It seemed that she had finally decided to tell the truth.
To be honest, "From my self-perception, I often confuse my connection with the queen, but logically and rationally, I know that I am not the real magic emperor. I don't know if you can understand this concept,
I am the clone of Lorissa..."
"Oh, I know, just clone, right?" Hao Ren nodded, "Clone even the memory?"
"Emotions are also copied together?" Lily saw a real clone for the first time, and her eyes suddenly lit up as if she had discovered a treasure. "Oh, why are you so careless? What clones fear most is the inheritance of emotions and memories, okay!"
Vivian also looked Lolisa up and down: "Well, with your technology back then, it's not unusual to create clones."
Lorissa was still preparing to explain to the group of people in front of her what the clone meant, but at this moment she was finally a little stunned: "Um, you all know that, right?"
The three of them nodded together: "I know, I know."
Betsy next to me didn’t comment: During her time on earth, the female mercenary was basically addicted to shopping and various low-intelligence variety shows. Her advanced cultural knowledge was limited to how to use a computer to search online stores and find movies. There was nothing at all.
She did not give the time traveler a face. Although she had the ambition to be a second-rate dealer across the world at the beginning, this ambition was extinguished by Hao Ren himself...
"Ah, then... that's easier to explain," Lolisa finally regained her expression, "I am the clone of Lolisa, the magic emperor of the elves. I have part of her memory and way of thinking, but in the final analysis
...A replica is a replica. I only know what happened before the accident in that laboratory. After that...just like the Tree of Life project you just mentioned, I know nothing about it."
"It's only a copy of some memories and emotions..." Hao Ren looked at the ancient clone in front of him with some surprise, "And it's also a copy of the Magic Emperor. The great Magic Emperors you played back then all made their own.
Are the clones still used in biochemical experiments? Have you created many such clones?"
"How is it possible? It's so difficult to copy a magic emperor," Lorissa shook her head. "I'm the only successful copy. Ah, it's basically a success. My memories and emotions should be unexpected for them.
But no matter what, success in one is better than failure in all."
"Why do they have to copy a magic emperor? Wouldn't it be safer and more controllable to directly copy ordinary people?" Hao Ren frowned and asked with some confusion, "And it sounds like they didn't initially expect that you would inherit the original body.
How dare they let you, an uncontrollable factor, participate in the experiment under such circumstances?"
"The reason for copying the Magic Emperor is that except for people of this level, no one can bear the 'divine grace'. They have tried ordinary people before, but they all failed without exception," Lorissa pointed at herself, "In fact
I also failed in the end: my mind collapsed after I came into contact with the deep information of the oracle, and you know what happened after that. As for why they allowed me to participate in the experiment... Haha, it's simple, because they had no choice.
That was a critical moment in the experiment, they had no time to create a new clone, and I have always been very cooperative."
"What happened to that oracle? Is it really the goddess of creation who ordered you to create divine beings? What is the so-called 'accepting divine grace'? Your current state is the result of receiving divine grace? What on earth are you doing?
What was done in that laboratory?" Hao Ren blurted out a series of questions.
Lorissa smiled: "You have so many questions... Well, it seems we still have a little time, so I can tell you from the beginning. You said you have been investigating the god-killing incident ten thousand years ago, then you Do you know what we thought at the beginning?"
"you?"
"Magic emperors, and people like me who 'participated' in the experiment," Lorissa showed a self-deprecating smile, "From the beginning to the end, we didn't know that someone was conspiring to usurp divine power and attack the 'god' in the deep space of the distant universe. The magic emperors on this planet know nothing about what happened in the country. All our sources of information are only the oracles we heard during prayers. This weak connection makes it difficult for us to grasp the truth... What can I say? I'm not sure when the problem first started, because my memory in this regard is inherited from Lorissa, and this inheritance is incomplete. All I can clearly remember is one fragment, and that is that on a certain day, At the most grand ceremony, in the presence of four magic emperors, the goddess's thoughts came to the mortal world in person. She said that the moment of rebirth in the mortal world was coming. According to a plan set from the beginning, when the mortal's mind grew to To a certain extent, we are qualified to share with God the secrets of life creation..."
"You are asked to study demon hunters... I mean the kind of super life you created?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, feeling that he was getting closer to the truth, "You just believe it? What came to you at that time was really the goddess of creation. idea?"
"Of course we believe it, because the will of the Goddess of Creation is supreme, and her power cannot be faked. We are all the people of the Goddess. When she comes, everyone who stands in front of her can feel the changes in their souls. The agitation coming from the depths is a natural phenomenon that arises spontaneously. You do not belong to this world, so you cannot understand this."
"Does that mean it was really the goddess of creation who came at that time?" Lily's eyes widened, "Then why did you yell before that 'the oracle is false'?"
"I... don't know," Lorissa showed a blank expression for the first time, "From the memory inherited from the main body, I can confirm that what came at that time was indeed the power of the goddess, but when the power of the oracle was injected into me In my body, I discovered that there was a crazy dark shadow hidden in the deepest part of that power. It was disguised as something evil. However, I had no time to remind others, because when that power was injected into my body, I My perception of the outside world was blocked. I tried hard to break free from its hold on my soul, but this resistance led to the loss of control of energy... You know what it ultimately led to."