When Lü Siya said this, her eyes were deep, her expression calm, even indifferent, carrying an inhuman air that seemed to have crossed history and transcended the stars.
Meng Chao could not tell whether he was wary of this Lü Siya or deeply drawn to her, seized by the most primal desire and wanting to risk everything.
He felt like a primitive man seeing blazing flames for the first time. As fire danced before his eyes and the scorched fragrance of roasting meat slipped into his nostrils, he knew he might be burned, yet could not restrain the impulse welling up from the depths of his heart.
"You're becoming more and more like the Monster Mastermind."
Meng Chao could only use such words to remind himself. "The Lü Siya of the past could never have said something like that. You're looking at things from the Monster Mastermind's perspective."
"People change. The Meng Chao of the past could not possibly have so calmly considered whether he should reproduce with a woman suspected of being an Avatar of the Monster Mastermind."
Lü Siya did not deny it. She merely said,
"Then again, people change, monsters change, and the Monster Mastermind changes as well.
"Suppose—just suppose—that a wisp of the Monster Mastermind's will truly still lurks deep within my brain, waiting for the right conditions to take root again, sprout, blossom, and bear fruit, turning me once more into the Tenth Demon God, the Jungle Banshee, the New Generation Monster Mastermind, or something of that sort. Do you think that, by then, I would be exactly the same entity as the 'original Monster Mastermind'?
"No. If you still believe that matter determines consciousness, then you should believe that while the Monster Mastermind's will changes my soul, my soul—as Lü Siya, a human—is also