The researchers kept injecting commands: you are Kiana, you must obey

They have a beginning and an end, and the path is paved with causes and effects that have already been written.

Zhou Weiqing stared at the three roads and couldn't help but ask:

"Are these three people all pre-selected Savior?"

"At least, their birth and growth follow a clear trajectory," Rong Nianbing said slowly. "Even if changes occur along the way, they are still within a certain framework."

In the center of the image, the fourth point of light slowly illuminates.

It is not dazzling.

It was as if at first it was just a speck of dust on the edge of the web of fate.

But the moment that speck of dust appeared, the entire web of cause and effect suddenly trembled.

Countless golden threads shifted simultaneously, forcibly tearing open a gap in the originally closed trajectory.

[K-423.]

[Not belonging to Kevin from the Previous Civilization.]

[Kiana Finality another World Lines.]

[Kiana Kaslana who does not belong to the true Kiana of this era.]

She wasn't chosen by any predetermined path.

She is the only miracle born from the collision of many coincidences.

"What?!"

Xu Sanshi's eyes widened.

"Isn't she Kiana's Counterpart?"

Bei Bei also looked surprised.

"But she possesses the bloodline of the Kaslana Family and also carries the power of the Finality."

"Having similar appearances, bloodlines, and powers doesn't mean she's another person," Tang San said. "What truly determines whose life belongs to someone is never external Marks."

Tang Wulin nodded slowly.

"It's the path she walked."

The Light Screen continued to change.

In a dimly lit Laboratory, young Otto stood in front of the Cultivation Pod.

This time, however, the footage did not repeat the previous recordings; instead, the camera zoomed in to the bottom of the Cultivation Pod.

There was a small patch of blood that shimmered with a golden sheen.

That was not the complete Kaslana bloodline.

It contains Collapse Beast factors, Herrscher core echoes, artificially selected Genes fragments, and a strange power that even Otto could not fully analyze.

[First Accidental Encounter: Incomplete Bloodline Fusion.]

The scene shifts again.

At a critical moment in the experiment, the Cultivation Pod suddenly malfunctioned.

Alarms blared throughout the base, and all devices malfunctioned simultaneously. The embryos, which should have been destroyed, escaped the death program due to a sudden energy surge.

[A second coincidence: a life that should have been erased was given the opportunity to continue existing.]

In the scene, Otto stands in front of the control panel and coldly issues the "hold" command.

"Continue to observe."

Just four words, yet they allowed that unformed life to remain in the world.

"So even Otto himself didn't fully anticipate her birth," Ning Tian said softly.

Ning Rongrong looked at the Light Screen, her brows furrowing slightly.

"But without Otto, she would never have been born."

"Creating life does not mean possessing life," Niu Tian said coldly. "He can be her creator, but that does not make him her master."

Tai Tan let out a heavy snort.

"We must not treat her as a tool just because she was an accident."

In the footage, the embryos inside the Cultivation Pod begin to grow.

She had no name, no identity, and no one expected her to be born safely.

Researchers refer to her as Number.

K-423.

This designation carries no blessings, no kinship, only the cold significance of experimentation.

However, before she opened her eyes for the first time, a third scene appeared.

A silver-haired girl stood amidst the ruins, her body covered in wounds. She gazed at the lifeless creatures within the Cultivation Pod, disobeying Otto's orders for the first time.

She's not the material.

The girl's voice was soft, yet unusually firm.

She is a human being.

New text appeared below the Light Screen.

[First Hero Catalyst: Someone Refuses to Treat Her as a Tool.]

The screen continued to flicker.

A gentle woman placed her palm on the Cultivation Pod and whispered to the life inside through the glass:

You will wake up.

"After you wake up, you should see the real sky."

The voice was as gentle as a spring breeze.

Cultivation Pod, the girl, who had not yet gained consciousness, twitched her finger slightly.

[Second Heroic Catalyst: Someone granted her the possibility of becoming human even before she was born.]

Tang Ya's eyes were slightly red.

"She hadn't even opened her eyes yet, and people were already protecting her."

"Is this the catalyst for heroism?" Xiao Xiao asked.

Ye Yinzhu answered softly:

"A hero doesn't necessarily have to save the world with his own hands. Sometimes, it's enough to be the first to stand up and say 'She is a human being' when everyone else treats a life as an object, and that's enough to change fate."

Zi looked at the cold Cultivation Pod and slowly said:

"Otto provided the body, the experiment provided the power, the accident saved her life, and it was the kindness of those people that gave her the opportunity to become her true self."

Ji Dong remained silent for a moment.

"Fate gave her Shackles, but people keep putting the keys into her hands."

His Lie Yan gaze softened.

Whether it can be activated in the end still depends on her own efforts.

The girl in the Light Screen finally opened her eyes.

At first, there was only confusion in those blue eyes.

She didn't know Otto, didn't know Schicksal, and didn't know the so-called mission to save the world.

She just stared at the lights above her head, reaching out her hand, trying to grasp that illusory sky.

The researchers diligently recorded the data.

"K-423 has awakened; compatibility rate exceeds expectations."

"Begin Remembrance infusion immediately."

"Etc."

Otto raised his hand.

He gazed at the girl in the Cultivation Pod, his expression so complex that no one could understand it.

After a moment, he said calmly:

"Teach her to speak first."

The researchers were taken aback.

"Say what?"

Otto remained silent for a moment.

"Anything is fine."

But the girl in the picture didn't speak, as anyone expected.

She simply looked through the Cultivation Pod at the woman outside the glass who had once told her to "look at the sky."

Her lips parted slightly.

"Sky..."

His voice was hoarse and childish.

Everyone in the Laboratory was stunned.

This was the first word she learned.

It's not obedience, it's not fighting, and it's not Kiana.

It is the sky.

Bei Bei's eyes flickered slightly.

"From the very beginning, she was searching for something that belonged to her."

"That's just instinct," Xu Sanshi said.

"Instinct is also important," He Caitou said seriously, "At least it's not an answer that others have instilled in her."

Time flew by within the Light Screen.

K-423 underwent training, learning to fight, to use weapons, and to survive among Collapse Beast.

She fell down again and again, but got up again and again.

Whenever she was about to lose control, the researchers would forcibly inject commands.

[You are Kiana.]

You must obey.

Your purpose in life is to complete the mission.

Those sounds were like nails, driven into her consciousness.

But beyond these orders, something outside the experimental plan quietly remained in her life.