Chapter 458
The one who turned to the dark side was also the most thorough.
Rebecca was originally an innocent and romantic girl who, despite her powerful abilities, never harmed anyone.
Until...
She was betrayed by her own parents.
Her parents secretly notified the Sentinel Special Services Bureau to come and arrest her. Rebecca was thunderstruck and cried out and struggled, pleading desperately, but they remained unmoved and just watched as she was taken away.
She became angry, desperate, and turned to the dark side.
Later, they paid the price.
Later, she was locked up in a mental hospital that specifically housed Mutants.
Montgomery County, Bethesda District, Maryland.
Linwood Mental Hospital.
This mental hospital is well-known in the Mutants community and in underground organizations because Lorna was once imprisoned there, but not long after, Magneto secretly cared about her, managed to get her out.
Incidentally, this wasn't the time Evangeline asked her to create an underground organization; that time was at Lakeview Mental Hospital.
Mental hospital, basement.
In a certain hospital ward.
Rebecca, a young girl, was wearing a white hospital gown and a collar specially designed for Mutants. She lay quietly on her small single bed, spacing out as usual, passing the boring days.
"Bite."
The small, crisp sound coming from the ground caught Rebecca's attention, and she turned her head to glance at it.
On the ground, there's a can of Fat House Happy Water!
It's been such a long, long time since she's had that Fat House Happy Water (a popular Chinese beverage), so long that she's almost forgotten what it tastes like.
"If only it were true..."
"I really want to drink it."
Rebecca muttered something under her breath, knowing full well that there was no way there would be Fat House Happy Water here.
It must be a hallucination...
Rebecca thought so.
"If you want to drink it, then get up, or... do you want me to feed it directly to you?"
???
The man's teasing voice made Rebecca sit up with her eyes wide open. She stared blankly as a handsome Asian boy bent down to pick up the Fat House Happy Water from the ground and then gave her a mocking smile.
Rebecca glanced at the door to the room. The tightly closed iron door showed no signs of having been opened, which meant... even the man was an illusion.
She suddenly chuckled and said self-deprecatingly, "I can tolerate Fat House Happy Water, but you've even started fantasizing about men. It's a shame... I wish you were real."
Su Quan was speechless. Had she really developed mental problems from being confined in the mental hospital for too long?
He thought for a moment, then asked with interest, "What if I were real?"
Rebecca shrugged. "If you really mean it, I'd be willing to never leave this world."
After saying that, she gave a bitter smile, "Okay, I was just saying. Anyway, I probably won't be able to get out of here in this lifetime."
"Not necessarily."
Su Quan popped open the Fat House Happy Water and handed it to Rebecca.
The steam that spurted from the pull tab made Rebecca, who was making a self-deprecating joke, freeze for a moment. She subconsciously sniffed, and the familiar smell made her think of a possibility.
A possibility I can't imagine, I can't believe.
She took a deep breath, glanced at the smiling man, and shakily reached out her hand.
Reason told her that this couldn't be true, but she also hoped it was. This feeling of uncertainty made her move slowly and hesitantly.
Finally, she touched it; her fingertips felt slightly cool, and the tactile feedback was incredibly realistic.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
Rebecca froze for a few seconds, then gripped the Fat House Happy Water.
Is this true?
This is true!!!
Rebecca's eyes shone brightly, radiating a dazzling light. She gripped the Fat House Happy Water with trembling hands and tilted her head back to gulp it down.
"Cool!"
Rebecca downed the Fat House Happy Water in one gulp, let out a maniacal shout, and carelessly wiped her mouth with her sleeve.
She's so excited she could explode!
It's true that "Fat House Happy Water" is real.
Where are the men?
It must be true!
Rebecca stared intently at Su Quan, as if she wanted to devour him whole. Then, she pounced on him like a tiger, kneeling down in front of Su Quan with a thud and grabbing his legs tightly with both hands.
"Take me away!"
"Take me away from here!!!"
Goodness, that startled me.
Su Quan looked down at the hysterical girl. What a pretty young girl she was, and look at how she's been tortured by this mental hospital.
"Calm down, listen to me." Su Quan patted her head and said with a smile, "Taking you away from here is easy for me, but the question is why should I do it! What can you give me? And what can I get in return!"
"I!"
You can have me!
Rebecca exclaimed excitedly, "If you're willing to take me away from here, my abilities, my loyalty, everything I have will belong to you!"
Su Quan said with a smile, "You'll do whatever I tell you to do. Can you do that?"
"Able!"
"I can!"
For Rebecca, rather than being trapped here forever, she would rather be a puppet without a self outside, at least she could feel the freedom outside.
Even if it's just a false freedom!
Only those who have been imprisoned here know how unbearable this feeling is.
If she hadn't seen the light, perhaps she could have endured the darkness here, but now, she was willing to pay any price to leave, and didn't want to wait another second.
"I know you are filled with hatred for humanity, but I hope you will remember this well: I did not order you to kill anyone, and you must not kill anyone under any circumstances!"
Su Quan warned very seriously, "If you can't do it, I will send you back at any time, and you will really have to spend the rest of your life in this cramped and disgusting room."
Rebecca's descent into darkness is no joke; she's incredibly ruthless and will show no mercy given the chance.
She was the most ruthless killer in the entire series.
PS: The picture is of Rebecca.
"I promise you, I'll agree to anything! From today onwards, I'll do whatever you ask me to do, and I absolutely won't do anything you forbid me to do!"
I swear!
Rebecca spoke earnestly and seemed to be speaking from the heart; it was probably her true feeling.
"Get up."
Su Quan's calm voice rang out, and Rebecca stood up with great joy.
Then, with a loud bang, the collar around her neck snapped open, unable to withstand some mysterious, invisible force.
Then, with a thud, it fell to the ground.
Rebecca stared blankly at the collar on the ground, amazed at how he had managed to remove her restraints so silently and effortlessly.
"My name is Su Quan."
"Remember my name, from now on... I'll protect you!" Su Quan patted her shoulder, a slight smile playing on his lips as he turned slightly toward the heavy, sturdy iron gate.
A mosaic-like spatial anomaly enveloped the iron gate. Then, with a loud bang, the iron gate reversed inside and out, the outer layer came inside, and the inner layer appeared outside.
"This... this is my ability!" Rebecca exclaimed in surprise, gasping for breath.
Her ability was something Su Quan accidentally unlocked when he destroyed the collar.
On a grander scale, this ability is the Manipulate Space-Time Dimensions, but the concept of Manipulate Space-Time Dimensions is vast and boundless, with a wide variety of effects, making it virtually omnipotent.
Rebecca only possessed one of the many effects within the concept of Manipulate Space-Time Dimensions: Spatial Reversal.