nyslfriends Chapter 759 - 669: Life Staff
Chapter 759 - 669: Life Staff
"To be honest, Life Daylight has encountered some significant changes recently."
Li Liujin hesitated repeatedly. The girl in the black and white butler’s outfit beside her nodded, and only then did Li Liujin continue speaking.
"Father’s health is declining, and the factional conflicts within the family are relentless..."
"Declining, did I hear right?"
Angelina suddenly interrupted.
"He’s the regent of Life Daylight, the leader of the entire southern world. With your company’s current medical standards, to torment a person, you just need to keep them alive in agony, don’t you?"
"Tsk." The girl in the butler’s outfit clicked her tongue.
"Father is already 327 years old this year," Li Liujin said.
"Hey, what’s with that look? Since the start of this negotiation, I haven’t been able to make eye contact with you. Has no one taught you what etiquette is?"
The girl in the butler’s outfit couldn’t help but voice her concern, questioning Angelina.
"Princess is only sixteen..."
"Lai Qing."
Li Liujin spoke up, reminding the girl in the butler’s outfit, who then fell silent, glaring at Angelina indignantly.
"Indeed, I can’t get along with this person."
"We’re no different now," Angelina shrugged.
"In fact, what Angelina said is something I’m curious about too."
Xu Xiaoyou said with a smile.
"As for any verbal offense, please forgive us."
"I’ve long heard that the Dark Gold Rose shield their own unreasonably." The girl in the butler’s outfit turned to talk to the person beside her. "Seeing it today, it’s indeed true."
Her voice wasn’t loud, but everyone present could hear it clearly.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the meeting room was tense, as Chichu Qiu observed the situation.
He had heard about the Life Daylight Princess’s personal bodyguard—known as the "Cleaner," the girl in the butler’s outfit. Despite her youthful appearance, her true age was unknown, but she was at least from the same era as Sebastian, the "Ghost" Cleaner.
As a Prism Tier Cleaner, her manner of going about things was quite low-key. After the era of Cleaners belonging to the "Ghost" faded, they seemed to collectively vanish from the public eye.
Upon reappearing, the "Cleaner" had become Li Liujin’s bodyguard, frequently accompanying the Princess in various public settings.
"Let’s return to the topic," Li Liujin sighed softly.
She, Chichu Qiu, and Xu Xiaoyou all understood that whether it was Angelina or Lai Qing, each represented their respective standpoints.
Some things were not convenient for them to say directly, and more importantly, none of them wanted to lose the initiative at the negotiating table, needing to show a stronger side when appropriate.
"At the beginning of father’s reign, there was an item lost on the battlefield of Octopus Tower City, called the Life Staff. For this, father had repeatedly negotiated with the Chichu Family, but to no avail."
Life Staff?
Upon hearing this, everyone’s hearts stirred.
They had all heard rumors about the Life Staff, claiming it was the core technology of Life Daylight, capable of analyzing and reconstructing life through touch.
To put it plainly, the Life Staff could transform a person into a composite of synthesized substances, much like a cake made from flour, sugar, eggs. When broken down further, it’s carbohydrates, fats, etc. As long as the synthesis materials are understood, life can be synthesized from organic matter through formulas.
To this day, the vast majority of cloning technologies worldwide rely on the research outcomes of the Life Staff.
To build a body, impart consciousness, and create life.
This seems like a miracle only God could accomplish.
Yet humanity has long achieved feats through core technology that even God could not.
Turning stone into gold is the ultimate pursuit of countless alchemists, and a fully developed Life Staff is the pursuit of all life for the ultimate question: ’Why does life exist?’
"To prevent accidents, we replicated an early blueprint of the Life Staff. Nearly half a century of scientific research accomplishments are built on this blueprint, yet the original remains missing, and research on the blueprint has reached a dead end."
After a moment’s reflection, Li Liujin shook her head, revealing the focus of her visit.
"Father is advanced in age, and the family is in continuous turmoil. People from various factions need someone to step in and stabilize the situation—the staff has become the focus of attention."
"My brother Li Mingqing hopes to acquire the staff and become the next Patriarch."
"As do I."
"I know very well that my brother..." Li Liujin swallowed, her eyes flickering.
"His disregard for life is akin to that of the staff. I’ve seen him transform living people into organic matter, then into other forms of life."
Li Liujin recalled the scenes she had witnessed.
Back then, she was still young, and her brother took her to the lab, enthusiastically sharing his research results with her and claiming that this world would be changed. It was a couple, fused together into a fleshy mass, moving against the glass of the observatory. Their blood flowed beneath their hairless skin, hearts beating, metabolism ongoing.
What she couldn’t forget the most is that even so, the couple retained their consciousness.
They shared their perceived world through bioelectric waves, expressed their pain, and conveyed their guilt and love for each other.
They were crying.
They were lamenting.
Her brother said this was the most perfect form for beings—no more pain, no more prejudice or barriers. Everyone would understand each other and become one another.
Her brother said people often deviate due to conflicting beliefs; behind peace lie social conflicts caused by resource allocation disparities; behind development comes invasion and slaughter.
The powerful kill the weak for resources, as survival of the fittest seen through the eyes of the strong.
And where’s the fault of the weak for resisting to survive?
Birds outside the library are noisy—can it be said their free singing disrupts people’s life rhythm?
From different perspectives, you’ll find this world is full of fallacies, and no one can truly define what’s right.
Then if we view problems from another angle, not debating worldly normative ethics but only discussing mistakes.
Everything in the world is wrong.
Only the levels of mistakes differ, and there is an order to ranking.
The strong killing the weak, the charge is taking life—mistake level 9.
The weak resisting the strong, the charge is fighting against survival of the fittest—mistake level 1.
Birds outside the library singing, the charge is disrupting people’s life rhythm—mistake level 4.
People inside the library dissatisfied, the charge is ignoring biological nature—mistake level 6.
This absurdity is meant to be corrected.
Her brother spoke these words with feverish passion, and Li Liujin could even sense the unusual look directed at her.
This cast an indelible shadow over her childhood; even today, thinking of that image, she instinctively recoils in fear.
"I absolutely cannot let the staff fall into my brother’s hands."