Chapter 1184 - 857: [Evil]

Chapter 1184: Chapter 857: [Evil]

Lu Xiao wanted to know everything about Shen Tang, that past he had not been part of.

"Sure, I’ve never told anyone else those old stories, and I’ve actually wanted to find someone to pour my heart out to." Shu Kui looked at the moonlight, his gaze tinged with reminiscence.

They met as children in an accident of fate, and later, once they learned the truth, the two of them agreed to run away together.

Unfortunately, two little children who couldn’t even truss a chicken stood no chance of escaping the Divine Hall’s pursuers; in the end, she was still captured by the Divine Hall.

The Divine Hall was furious at this failed experimental subject that had cost them so much effort, yet they couldn’t bear to simply erase her. So after colluding, they decided to erase the memories of the two sisters they had captured, remodel them, send them into the Beast World Continent, and find them new identities for a simulated experiment.

The identity they chose for Shen Tang was that of the Night Glow Empire Little Princess from twenty years ago—about the same age as her, similar in build, and a spoiled, vicious brat.

Where did the original Princess go? Naturally, she had long since been dealt with by the Divine Hall.

On an ordinary morning, that willful and malicious Little Princess was replaced by another person, but no one knew.

Even if someone noticed something was off, their memories were secretly manipulated by the Divine Hall’s people. This "swapping the prince with a civet cat" scheme was executed without a single leak.

Shen Qingli, on the other hand, was thrown into a small tribe, and she too was woven a new background.

On the surface, the Divine Hall sent these two special experimental subjects out as punishment, to have them collect high-quality Beastman genes to atone for their sins, but in truth the real purpose was to continue the experiment.

This time, the experimental site was no longer a fabricated simulated environment in a lab, but a real world.

They wanted to carry the experiment forward, to cultivate these two experimental subjects into the mature forms they truly needed.

Later, Shu Kui infiltrated the Divine Hall and became one of the Ten Holy Seats, and finally found out the truth of what happened that year—they wanted to create a female experimental subject to offer to Our Lord.

A wife? A lover? Or a bed slave for pleasure?

Whatever the purpose, this special female experimental subject was supposed to possess stunning beauty, quick wits, a pure heart, virtuous character, and a gentle temperament.

But Shu Kui discovered that this was not the case at all.

What they wanted to create was—

An Ultimate Evil Body.

A [evil] that was hypocritical, greedy, vicious, cunning, and utterly selfish.

That was what they demanded: a perfect and successful experimental subject.

Why did the Divine Hall want to create such an experimental subject steeped in darkness and ominousness?

To this day, Shu Kui still did not understand the reason.

The Main System Xing Huan was obviously perplexed as well, so it agreed to cooperate with the Divine Hall, hoping to uncover the truth.

So the Main System Xing Huan also made preparations on both fronts, embedding two System versions inside both experimental subjects.

The first-generation System version was a special version created to the Divine Hall’s specifications, its purpose being to guide out the evil in the experimental subject’s heart.

If the first-generation System version failed, it might trigger the embedded hidden version.

At the beginning, after Shen Tang replaced the Night Glow Empire Princess’s identity, her memories were also altered once, fully replicating that arrogant and domineering Little Princess.

She had never doubted her own identity, but after all she was not the same person; her true nature was still kind and pure. ℯ𝕝.

Forced to complete the tasks assigned by the System, she had been trying to resist in the depths of her heart, and was frequently punished by the System. Very soon, this led to a mental breakdown; she became crazed and erratic, making people avoid her even more.

Until, after she came of age and was exiled, in the Polluted Land, perhaps because her body and mind completely collapsed, she successfully triggered the hidden System and had her memories reset.

And the Shen Tang after that was exactly the her they all knew.

Even the usually calm and unruffled Lu Xiao felt stormy waves surging in his heart when he heard this; even his fingertips trembled slightly. So... this was the truth?

He suddenly remembered something from a long time ago.

Back then he was still a boy of about ten, accompanying his father into the palace, and he had once seen from afar that Little Princess who had been bound to him by a betrothal.

Before the Princess was even born, the two of them had a prearranged engagement, but Lu Xiao had never really interacted with this young fiancée. First, he felt she was simply too young; there was an eight-year age gap between them, and he couldn’t possibly have any thoughts about a little child—it just felt wrong. So aside from certain public occasions, he had never gone to meet this little fiancée alone.

Still, he was somewhat curious about that Little Princess.

When he followed his father into the palace to pay respects to the Emperor, once, as if driven by a ghost, he took a detour near the Princess’s bedchamber and saw that young highness from afar.