"Break the cycle?"
Lu Xin slowly savored those four words, feeling that even just these four words possessed an extraordinary magic.
Was this Mom's goal?
"Yes."
The Black Queen nodded lightly, her gaze distant. "A woman as proud and clever as my sister naturally wouldn't pursue the things only lowly consciousnesses would seek, such as becoming a so-called god in reality, or harboring ambitions so great that she wanted to ascend the throne."
"What she has always wanted is to break the cycle, to break the shackles faced by us Ultimates."
"..."
As she said this, her expression seemed to grow somewhat emotional.
The intense emotions she usually displayed were gone, and her voice became calmer:
"When we awakened from the abyss together and came to reality, I was actually luckier than my sister."
"She was captured right from the beginning, and even exploited."
"But I gained freedom, becoming one of the first Ultimates to descend into reality while retaining my freedom..."
"Unfortunately..."
Her lips trembled slightly. After a long while, she continued, "We ultimately turned out to be different."
"From my free status, because of my stupidity, I fell bit by bit into the hands of the Gaoshan Laboratory and became..."
"...a lackey!"
When she said those two words, the hatred in her voice was unmistakable.
She mocked herself as though she were cursing and ridiculing someone else.
After finishing, she even paused, as if she wanted to properly savor this humiliation inflicted by herself. Only then did she look at Lu Xin and say, "But my sister walked step by step from a fate of bondage toward the freedom she has today..."
Listening to her, Lu Xin could not help nodding.
Indeed, he did not know how Mom had been controlled by the first-generation researchers.
But she seemed