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They didn't care about ordinary people, but clearly the woman Ronan brought was somewhat useful, and they didn't want to ruin her life.

Two days later, Ravana was tested.

Her son and daughter have been having a blast these past two days.

Although the two were children of the grasslands, they had no memory of grasslands at all. From the time they could remember, they had been living in that crowded residential area. This was the first time in their lives that they had seen a plain that stretched as far as the eye could see and a forest that seemed infinitely vast.

After most of the day of testing, the results are in.

"How is it?" Ronan asked.

“She’s mixed race,” Faith replied.

Ronan almost laughed. In the Kazakh Khanate, were there any people who weren't of mixed race?

Faith then added, "I'm not talking about people to people."

“She has the bloodline of more than one kind of monster,” Falek said as he approached. “If our research hadn’t been relevant to this, we might not have been able to make this judgment.” They were developing new magical artifacts and wouldn’t conduct human experiments right away. So, they accidentally discovered that the hybrid animals had a strong affinity for each other while experimenting on animals with monster bloodlines, and then began further research.

Chapter 1097 Not just mixed race, not a lie but a concealment, a twisted feeling

Ronan never expected that Lavana, whom he initially thought was just an ordinary nomadic primitive believer who had been transformed into a superhuman by the technology, would actually be such a "hybrid".

"What kind of stuff has she been involved in?" Ronan asked.

“There are too many to trace back,” Faith replied. “And the special features of her body are not just that.”

"Huh?" Ronan didn't expect that this was not all.

Falek explained, "Actually, she had already undergone a transformation before she received the conversion, an incomplete transformation, no, that can't be said, it should be a modified original totem transformation."

“You’re making me all confused,” Ronan said to Falek.

At this moment, Canaan, dressed in a white coat, approached and said, "Let me explain. Her bones were replaced with something similar to a totem, and she underwent a pre-transformation when she was very young. The person who did this to her probably wanted to break through the limitations of the transformation technology formed by the totem and magic, but unfortunately, it didn't achieve the desired effect at all."

Canaan's account is correct. Ravana's skeleton is a human skeleton transformed from bone carvings that have undergone many rituals in the past and have acquired extraordinary properties. It grows in perfect harmony with her own growth and has not shown any special characteristics from childhood to adulthood.

Ronan seemed to understand, and then asked, "She said she was very receptive to that drug, is that true?"

Canaan stroked his chin. "Without seeing the actual potion, we can't draw any conclusions. But according to what you said, her deceased husband suddenly added a power boost before going to the temple and ultimately used power above the third rank. Judging from her story, she is a mixed-race person, and even a mixed-race person several generations ahead. Moreover, she has something in her body that her husband didn't have. Considering all this, she should indeed have a very strong adaptability."

Falek rolled his eyes at Canaan, "After all that talk, we should still try it out and install our Unit 1 on her."

"No, Unit 1 has too many functions, it's too powerful. It was created for trial and error, to see what adverse reactions would occur if it were installed. It was never intended to be transplanted or installed on others," Canaan stated.

That's what they say, but it's really just an excuse. Canaan just felt there was something wrong with Lavana and didn't want to give it to her.

“If you’re going to install something, install the best one for her. What’s the point of installing something of the second-best? Once this thing is installed, it can’t be taken off. If something goes wrong, she’ll end up like Xiao Zhao.” Falek said.

Xiao Zhao is Madam Zhao. Because Madam Zhao's cultivation level was insufficient, she could not achieve immortality through conventional means. Therefore, various technologies were combined to turn her into a cyborg, forcibly raising her rank and achieving immortality. She still looks like a normal human, but her inner self is no longer human.

After a long silence, Faith suddenly spoke up, "Can't you ask for other people's opinions first?"

Canaan and Falek were stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized they had forgotten about it.

Realizing what he'd just said, Falek immediately dismissed the idea. "Let's forget about it. Let's talk to her and encourage her to start a new life with her children." Canaan scoffed, "Falek, are you out of your mind? And Ronan, what's wrong with you? Didn't you realize this woman was lying?"

“She didn’t lie, she just concealed something,” Ronan said calmly.

Ravana insisted on telling a story. In the beginning of the story, she devoted far more space to describing her simple and happy life with her "adoptive father" and "brother" than to her life with her husband and children. After telling the story, she abruptly emphasized that she was special, so certain of it, yet she didn't mention a word about the basis for this judgment.

After Canaan and Faith completed their tests and explained things to her in Falek, Ronan understood a lot and had some guesses.

Lavana had always wanted to see her "adoptive father" and "brother," but over the years, this thought had faded. However, her husband suddenly died, and the drug strangely worked well for her. After her grief subsided, she immediately thought of her adoptive father and brother again. She was determined to find them, believing that only by embarking on the path of revenge could she hope to see them again.

Of course, this conclusion is just Ronan's guess.

She wasn't unconcerned about her children, so she tried to mislead Ronan, hoping to become his tool and then naturally get him to help her find someone to take care of them. She probably also felt that it would be better for her children to be cared for by Ronan's people.

However, Lavana's rhetoric was rather clumsy; even Canaan could see that she had a problem, but he just didn't understand it.

“That’s right,” Falek agreed.

How could she not see through it?

Faith remained silent; she was used to being an observer.

Canaan suddenly became anxious, "So, should we install Unit 1 on her or not?"

She was now unsure how to evaluate Lavana, the woman she had just met. She had initially thought that Lavana's revenge was just an excuse, that she didn't care about her children, and that she was cunningly hiding her ambitions, actually wanting power. But after Ronan's words, she realized that this woman was actually a bit foolish and inexplicably stubborn. She wanted to find someone but didn't dare to say it outright, which instead caused a misunderstanding.

Although, it was merely a misunderstanding on her part, Canaan.

Ronan and Falek quickly realized that she wasn't particularly ambitious. "Of course, it depends on her own opinion," Ronan said.

Afterwards, the group went to the testing site.

At this moment, Ravana had already woken up.

Falek and his two companions consulted Ravana, who hesitated only for a moment before agreeing immediately.

“I’ll say it again, this stuff is very risky, and we don’t have any inhibitors here,” Canaan reiterated.

“If I’m useless, there’s nothing we can do,” Lavana said.

"Is there any meaning to your life?" Canaan asked in a questioning tone.

“I just want to find the meaning of life.” As soon as the words left her mouth, Ravana realized she had misspoke and quickly corrected herself with an emphasis, “Revenge is the meaning of my life now.”

Falek smiled. "The meaning of life comes from within, not from others telling you. But if you want to persist, then persist."

“Come back in two days,” Faith said.

“Your son and daughter are over in town. You can go find them now.” Ronan told Lavana where her children were staying temporarily and then asked her to leave.

Ravana looked at Ronan and the three women, feeling as if she had been seen through. She hesitated, then gave a polite bow before turning and leaving.

Canaan shook his head with his hands on his hips, "I really don't understand. You can't really say she's stupid, but she's just really dull."

“In Seresian, it’s awkward,” Falek added.

Ronan smiled. "Ha, indeed."

"Alright, enough nonsense. We need to prepare properly. Unit 1 is not easy to get," Faith reminded her.

Chapter 1098 No need for meaning, just simplicity—the married woman felt relieved.

Ravana went to the place where her son and daughter were staying, but did not see them. She found her son Aurier, who was learning to shoot a rifle, and her daughter Elina, who was learning to ride a pony, by the river outside the town.

She watched silently from afar.

After a while, the son seemed to have grasped some of the key points and started practicing shooting. He fired seven shots before finally hitting the thick trunk of a large tree more than ten meters away, but he was so happy that he jumped up and down. The daughter also nervously started riding forward on horseback. Even though the horse was being led by someone, she had a smiling face as if she were galloping freely.

Ravana had never seen her two children so happy.

She suddenly remembered her childhood, when she was often just as innocent and happy.

At that moment, she wavered.

Seeing that Yi Mao's wavering only lasted a short time, she still wanted to find an answer in the process, to tell herself what she was living for.

“Actually, people don’t need any meaning in life.” The voice came from behind her, and Lavana turned around sharply to see Ronan.

"However, people should not live too complicatedly; they should live a simpler life."

Ronan followed up with that.

Lavana didn't quite understand and didn't respond.

Ronan walked over and stood in front of her. "Actually, you should have been more direct from the beginning. You should have said you wanted revenge, that you wanted to find someone, that you wanted to entrust the child to someone else, that you wanted to improve your strength, and then said what you could do. Wouldn't that have been better?"

“But…” Lavana hesitated.

Ronan smiled. "But that would make me seem like a bad person, wouldn't it?"

Lavana remained silent; she hadn't expected Ronan to read her mind so perfectly.

“You really don’t seem like a Rus, nor a steppe person, but more like a Seres. You subconsciously feel ashamed of saying things like ‘I want, I want this.’” Ronan continued with a series of piercing words. “You’ve probably always had an invisible barrier between you and those Rus, and even your husband. The meaning you originally accepted came from the peaceful life your adoptive father hoped for, but unfortunately, everything changed after your husband was injured. The goal of pursuing a peaceful life has been tormenting you, and you’ve naturally begun to doubt it, feeling that it’s not right. Then, while trying to go back, you can’t help but think about what kind of meaning you should have.”

"Unfortunately, before you could figure anything out, this unexpected turn of events occurred."

After saying that, Ronan looked at Lavana.

Ravana was completely stunned. Ronan's words seemed to peel away her skin and break open her bones, exposing her heart completely.

“What should I do?” Lavana asked.

“You should ask yourself that question,” Ronan said.

Lavana was no ordinary grassland girl. She was raised by a knowledgeable and insightful man, and she also acquired a great deal of knowledge. However, children can only mechanically imitate and apply these things. When her values ​​were just beginning to form but were still immature, she was forced to marry a man who had little knowledge and insight, even though he was supposed to be a good person.

In the years that followed, she lived a mundane life, and no one could answer any of her questions. She suppressed everything and tried her best to maintain the so-called mundane life. Her mind was divided. One part was that of a sixteen-year-old girl who had been forced to learn and gain knowledge, but had no one to guide her, was still confused, and longed for someone to talk to her. The other part was that of a twenty-eight-year-old ordinary wife who was going back and forth between work and life, gradually losing herself, but was unwilling to accept it.

“I don’t know what to do,” Lavana replied.

"Then let me ask you a few questions," Ronan said. "Do you want to become stronger?"

"Yes," Ravana replied decisively.

"What do you do after you become stronger?" Ronan asked.

Lavana felt that Ronan was asking a question he already knew the answer to, "To avenge him, and to go find them."

"And then?" Ronan asked again.

Lavana hesitated for a moment, "After it's over, I'll come back and take care of the children."

"Really?" Ronan asked.

“I…I don’t know,” Ravana said reluctantly. “I don’t want them to end up like me.”

Ronan didn't ask why, and skipped directly to the next question, "You were sixteen years old. What was your dream before your adoptive father passed away?"

“I want to go to Seris,” Ravana replied. She answered almost without thinking, and even she was surprised when she said it, because it was something that happened more than ten years ago. Even if she hadn’t completely forgotten it, she should have forgotten it and needed to recall it carefully, but that was not the case.

Ronan pressed his advantage, asking, "What are you going to Seris for?" Ravana fell silent again, unable to answer.

She should be imagining what Seris did in the past, but she can't remember now. After thinking for a long time, she finally remembered what happened.

It turned out that when she first expressed her desire to go to Seris when she grew up, that person changed the subject and even subtly implied that Seris was a bad place. From then on, she never expressed it again. She told herself that her restless mindset was wrong. However, the things she suppressed became more and more deeply rooted in her heart. In fact, she never really wanted to go to Seris.

Actually, everything is not complicated at all.

She just lives a somewhat contradictory life.

Ravana spoke in a monotonous, textbook-like tone, "I don't really want to go to Seris."

"Back to the original question, do you want to become stronger?" Ronan asked the question he had asked at the beginning.

"Yes," Ravana replied, her tone even more resolute than before.

“That’s fine then,” Ronan said, turning to leave.

Ronan had only taken a few steps when Lavana suddenly called out to him. This was the first time she had spoken to him since Ronan and his group had made contact with her. "Is something wrong?" Ronan asked.

"Why don't you ask me about my adoptive father, or what price I have to pay for it?" Ravana asked, voicing her two questions.

"You don't even know your adoptive father yourself, so what's the point of me asking you? As for the price, your cooperation in this experiment is the price. As for the future, I never force anyone to do anything." Ronan said that he had been navigating this world for decades and had his own ways of guiding others. He never needed to force anyone; he always got people to do things willingly, while incidentally achieving his own goals.

People like Ravana, who learned a lot of knowledge and principles when they were young but couldn't truly understand them, and who lived a "plain life" early on but could never truly integrate into it, are ultimately just overthinking things and have nowhere to talk about them. After chatting with her for a while, her condition stabilized.

"Alright, eat well and sleep well for the next few days, and get yourself in good shape."

"Speak," Ronan said, waving his hand, and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Lavana suddenly felt relieved. Even though she still had the hatred for her deceased husband, two young children, and the obsession with seeing her adoptive father and brothers, these three heavy burdens suddenly seemed less heavy.

Chapter 1099 Equipment, Pseudo-Rank Upgrade and True Rank Upgrade, Lavana's Good Physique

Dozens of kilometers west of the town, in the mountains.

The three-person technical team, Ronan, and Lavana, arrived at a fortress built into the mountainside, designed and constructed by Caterpillar.

Inside the fortress, a spacious room of several hundred square meters is where the surgery is performed.

The idea of ​​transplanting magical artifacts originated from another parallel universe.

But people from the two worlds, though seemingly the same, are actually different.

Therefore, the soul state of people in this world must be changed in order to transplant and load magical artifacts.

Falek and his team extracted elements from the techniques of "Soul Transfer" and "Magic Transformation," and combined them to invent a device that allows a person's soul and body to enter a state suitable for the transplantation of magical artifacts. This device is expensive and requires cutting-edge technology.

To this day, those who can build such devices generally only know how but not why, since while the transformation into a demonic spirit is public knowledge, the soul transfer technique remains a secret art.

This type of equipment is a strategic resource and is generally strictly controlled. Those that flow into the public domain are either obsolete or scrapped, and even broken machines require human assistance to barely achieve the desired effect. Therefore, it is highly likely that problems will arise if civilians attempt to transplant or install magical artifacts.

However, there are too many people in this world who dare to gamble with their lives.