World-Ending Black Rose?
Han Su was stunned. He had never imagined that Black Rose could be associated with the words "world-ending."
"We went to great lengths to escape from beneath that mad machine..."
Li Manman kept her eyes on Han Su, not missing a single microexpression. This question was far too important to her, so she needed to rule out the possibility that Han Su was lying or deliberately hiding something.
Now she saw the shock on Han Su's face, and quietly revealed an even more shocking truth. "Ever since the Qinggang Big Bang, she's trapped everyone and, under the name Black Rose, planned four disasters meant to bring down the existing civilization!"
"By now, it's impossible to calculate how many cities, or how many people, have died in the wake of her disasters."
"..."
"This..."
Han Su had already heard from Wei Lan that the real-world disasters were connected to Mother of Machinery.
But hearing it from Li Manman still weighed heavily on him. He could only look up, focus, and ask in a low voice:
"What exactly happened?"
"..."
Li Manman confirmed that the shock and confusion on Han Su's face were genuine. She let out a quiet sigh, then spoke slowly. "I was originally one of the Twelve Angels in the Black Rose organization."
"Or rather, aside from a few unlucky ones who died, all of us children who survived the Ancient Castle became angels driven by that mad machine!"
"It's just that, at first, we didn't know that would be our fate..."
"..."
She paused slightly, seemingly considering how to help Han Su understand. "When the Ancient Castle collapsed, our minds were all in chaos."
"It was as if we'd surfaced from a deep ocean and suddenly gained the ability to breathe. We returned from that