Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 259: Inner Drive Contradiction

Chapter 259: Inner Drive Contradiction

All along, my impression of the true form of Ying Lingyun has been drawn from the accounts of various people, and all of them describe him in the same terms: arrogant, mad, evil, ruthless, like a Demon...

However, Mr. Zhu mentioned that Ying Lingyun wasn’t always like this. The man that he was originally indeed had a proud and pretentious air to him, yet he possessed a heart filled with a zeal for justice, which led him onto the path of opposition against Yinyue.

It was precisely because he realized he had lost Yinyue forever, that most important woman in his life, that he strangled the version of himself that once upheld high moral standards, abandoned his wife, his children, and himself, denying the greatest achievement of his life, all just to dedicate the remainder of his existence to the singular goal of resurrecting Yinyue.

He even fell into a state of mental derangement for this reason—and that is not a metaphor, but a fact. Through the knowledge and memory of "potential avatars," he transformed himself into a mad scientist with exceptional research abilities; and according to the information provided by young girl Lu Chan, directly absorbing the knowledge and memory of "potential avatars" is a suicidal act that will lead to personality disintegration.

All these actions are built upon the premise that "Yinyue is really and utterly dead."

If it’s true that Yinyue had already prepared an effective method for resurrection, then what was all that Ying Lingyun did for?

If Ying Lingyun was oblivious to all these, one might still claim he was making a fool of himself for unrequited love, but that is emphatically not the case. He knew from the very beginning what Yinyue intended to do, and his role was merely to fill in the gaps in Yinyue’s imperfect resurrection plan.

This is truly strange. Even if Yinyue’s resurrection wasn’t perfect, after all, she was indeed brought back to life. From dead to alive, from zero to one, it was a definitive transformation. Moreover, from my interactions, it seems that Yinyue may not have regained all her powers after resurrection, but she still retains the power of the Rank of Great Success. Even if there are other major flaws unknown to me, at the very least, these are either issues Yinyue chose to accept or could potentially resolve over time.

Just to patch up the gaps, did Ying Lingyun really need to sacrifice to such an extent? The driving force that pushed him to such madness is severely lacking. Knowing full well that Yinyue would be resurrected, it should be incredibly difficult for him to harbor the despair of having completely lost a loved one, and this would hardly be enough to drastically change his temperament.

Contradictory.

In my mind, the once clear portrait of Ying Lingyun is gradually becoming blurred.

There must be some very crucial piece of information that I am unaware of.

The reason why Ying Lingyun would go to such lengths even though Yinyue has been resurrected... For the moment, I can only find one direction for reasoning: for Ying Lingyun, "the current Yinyue" is absolutely unacceptable.

Why? Because the woman he loves is now using his son’s body, which he finds unacceptable?

Also, since he knew from the beginning that Changan was the vessel for Yinyue’s resurrection, why did he keep Changan at the Zhu family all this time?

The possession of Changan’s body by Yinyue’s spirit happened after he emerged from the glass chamber in the secret chamber of the Human Bureau. The purpose of that glass chamber was to release the Sealing on Changan’s Demon bloodline. Therefore, when Yinyue mounted her attack, I had a moment where I thought it was the Demon bloodline of Changan going berserk. According to my post-event analysis, the prerequisite for Yinyue to possess Changan must be the event of "Changan’s Demon bloodline Sealing being lifted."

Yet Ying Lingyun watched with his own eyes as the Zhu family kept the "condition for Yinyue’s resurrection" sealed for so many years without doing anything, inevitably raising doubts in one’s mind. Combined with the possibility that he seems unable to accept "the current Yinyue," maybe the Zhu family was doing something that suited his wishes. But if that was the case, why did he place Changan in the glass chamber to lift the Demon bloodline Sealing not long ago?

Is it because he has now developed the "ritual of rebirth," and although "the current Yinyue" is unacceptable to him, she could at least become an essential element for the "perfect Yinyue," so he believes the time is ripe?

As I pondered this, Fu Feng and Dong Che took turns interrogating the senior researcher.

Compared to Yinyue and Changan, they were clearly more concerned about Xu Gou, the "missing candidate for Impermanence." Although Xu Gou is undoubtedly an enemy of the Human Bureau now, that doesn’t mean he won’t become an enemy of Luo Mountain. If the situation turns for the worst, then Luo Mountain’s three great troubles could become four.

The senior researcher also understood that resisting was futile and that answering honestly was his only option. Although he didn’t know Xu Gou’s current whereabouts, at least he mentioned the time of Xu Gou’s defection. It happened just a month ago, which, to a certain extent, aligns with my previous reasoning. It is likely that recently, Ying Lingyun completed adjustments for the "ritual of rebirth."

Furthermore, this is just my conjecture, but there might be another reason why he decided to act on Changan now: he deduced that the Zhu family intended to personally lift Changan’s Demon bloodline Sealing.

His reasoning process must not have been complicated—since the creator of the monsters had once seen me through the eyes of the Shadow Swapping Monster, then he most likely also saw Changan, who appeared at the scene during our interrogation of the Shadow Swapping Monster. And since Changan has come into contact with the abnormal world, the Zhu family would certainly not allow Changan to continue to be powerless.

Everything matched up.

The biggest problem right now is whether Changan can still be saved, and whether he has already been consumed by Yinyue as resurrection material.

I asked a senior researcher without much hope.

"...I think, perhaps Changan’s soul might still be alive." He actually seemed to have some theories.

I immediately asked, "Based on what?"

He seemed to be organizing his thoughts: "Not long ago, you seemed to have fought with Yinyue...but Yinyue should have had no reason to fight you, she should have immediately withdrawn from the battlefield, yet she chose to stay and fight you...why is that?"

"She seemed to have compelling reasons to kill me." I said.

"The following is just my speculation, Yinyue might want to drive Changan’s soul into despair," he said, "This is a common tactic used by evil spirits that take over bodies, they manipulate the victim’s body to murder their friends and family, causing their spirits to sink and collapse, making it easier for them to take over. And it seems you have some connection with Changan, which possibly made you a target for murder."

Since Yinyue needed to do this, it was sufficient proof that Changan’s soul still existed, and I couldn’t help feeling a bit relieved. However, on the other hand, Fu Feng and Dong Che were also listening nearby, making them realize my close relationship with Changan wasn’t good, considering I am now completely severed from the Zhu family in public.

"Regardless of whether I’m really that important in his heart..." I said, "With Yinyue’s power, if she wanted to control an ordinary college male student with demonic bloodline, does she really need to imitate an ordinary evil spirit and carry out such acts to take over his existence?"

"No need." The senior researcher admitted, "So this is just my speculation. Maybe Yinyue just wanted to manipulate her biological son’s body to kill some of his acquaintances. We humans cannot understand the thoughts of such demons and devils."

"You seem to know quite a lot... to have so much information handed over just at the right moment..." Fu Feng said thoughtfully, "Since you know so much, answer me another question, did that Xu Gou also use your monster transformation technology? Or, to be more precise, is there also a seed of the heart implanted inside his body from your place?"

"No." The senior researcher shook his head, "What he was implanted with is just an unknown substance like black jade."

I thought Fu Feng would ask for information related to the Divine Seal Fragment next, but he asked about something else: "Then do you know who the original being of the monster, the source of the seed of the heart, actually is?"

"I don’t know," the senior researcher shook his head again.

I remembered what was mentioned in Dr. Silver Mask’s diary notes.

Dr. Silver Mask had speculated before that the provider of the seed of the heart, the monster’s original being, is very likely to be Impermanence beyond Luo Mountain. According to the information Zhu Shi gave me before, Impermanence beyond Luo Mountain could only be two people, Xuanming who defected from Luo Mountain and someone called the Taoyuan Village Master.

The earliest emergence of the monster can be traced back to eighteen months ago, while Xuanming defected from Luo Mountain only six months ago, therefore, Xuanming’s suspicion can be excluded. The original body of the monster is most likely that Taoyuan Village Master.

Sharing this piece of information with Fu Feng is not a problem, but it might not be appropriate for Dong Che to hear it while Fu Feng is present. Fu Feng could be the Luo Mountain traitor secretly communicating with the Human Bureau; he might consider silencing Dong Che for some reason. Although he also has the motive to silence Dong Che now, I don’t need to make matters worse.

I’ll have to investigate more about that Taoyuan Village Master later, I thought to myself.

Fu Feng continued to interrogate the senior researcher, but still came up empty-handed. The interrogation was coming to an end, and maybe because we were present, Fu Feng didn’t seem to want to drag out the work too long. Although I also had many questions related to Ying Lingyun, Yinyue, and Changan, I couldn’t continue to extract more answers from the senior researcher. One cannot get answers to information unknown to the party involved.

It looks like that’s as far as I can ask for now. I morphed my body back to that of a nearly twenty-year-old’s appearance, while Fu Feng called the interrogation personnel back in and instructed them to take the senior researcher back to the prison area. We left the interrogation room and left the way we came, led by Fu Feng.

Dong Che slowed his steps slightly, seemingly deliberately distancing himself from Fu Feng, while he frequently glanced towards Mazao.

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