After the Controllers had beco a new life form through the Bionic Human, a beam of white light flew from the key hanging around Bai Zhongqi's neck, landing directly in her hands.
What Bai Zhongqi hadn't expected was that it was the Divine Weapon she had once wielded, Exterminator of Souls.
The smile on the face of the Controller, a woman whose beauty could be rated no more than five out of ten, widened as she said to Bai Zhongqi, "I truly never imagined I could beco your Knight."
Bai Zhongqi was also sowhat puzzled; he did not know how the Sky-Piercing Pyramid exactly chose its Knights. It was one thing for Chi Jia, but now even the Controller, once his formidable enemy, had beco a Knight, which was quite frustrating for him.
However, the other party was quite tactful. The less attractive woman knelt on one knee before him, but her expression bore little respect.
"From today onward, my na will be Shiluo, and I will serve you loyally, Your Excellency the Chancellor." She slightly lowered her head, but when she raised her head, she winked at Bai Zhongqi.
Bai Zhongqi was unable to reclaim the Divine Weapon and could only reluctantly accept the situation for the ti being. However, this did not an he would entrust this woman, who now called herself Shiluo, with important responsibilities.
"Regardless, first help Lanzhou separate all her personalities."
Shiluo laughed softly, "Naturally."
In what was originally Linyin's laboratory, there were all sorts of old and newly added equipnt, making such a procedure a non-issue. Out of curiosity, Linyin had also co to see firsthand the thods of soul manipulation by the Controller.
Shiluo smiled slightly, and as she spread her fingers, a thread-like filant erged from each fingertip, instantly flying into the pacified body of Xu Lanzhou under hypnosis. Before anyone could react, ten filants had pulled out sothing seemingly invisible yet slightly luminous from Xu Lanzhou's body.
Shiluo, still with energy to spare, turned to Bai Zhongqi with a smile, "Both the Chancellor and General Xu should thank . It's due to my hard work over these years that each personality of General Xu firmly held a part of the soul, nourishing each personality until they could be separated. If this were not accomplished, extracting these soul fragnts now would be like dismbering a person, resulting directly in death."
Bai Zhongqi humd, "Don't expect to thank you."
"Lanzhou originally had multiple personalities, and they worsened significantly after the trauma of the incident at Wuyagong, becoming increasingly nurous. If not for my deliberate guidance, she might have succumbed and died."
"Without you, it wouldn't have been so severe," Bai Zhongqi retorted.
By then, Shiluo had already finished transferring the ten soul fragnts into ten Bionic Human bodies. She then inserted nine filants deeper into Xu Lanzhou's body, extracting nine more soul fragnts.
Although the process sounds simple, it took a considerable amount of ti—eight hours in total for Shiluo to finally place the nineteen personalities into nineteen different bodies.
When Xu Lanzhou and the other nineteen woke up, Bai Zhongqi was indeed overwheld.
"Are you sure each personality asked you to make them look exactly like Xu Lanzhou?" Bai Zhongqi asked Shiluo, gripping her arm.
Shiluo covered her mouth, giggling softly, "They all originally split from Xu Lanzhou's soul, naturally their self-recognition is that of Xu Lanzhou's appearance. It shouldn't be surprising that after splitting off, they'd want their original form."
The awakened Xu Lanzhou, looking at the nineteen girls who looked identical to her, showed a sowhat relieved expression. Although she felt sowhat weak, it wasn't a physical weakness but a ntal one, she still approached Bai Zhongqi and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, I apologize for causing you concern."
Bai Zhongqi smiled gently, "As long as you're all right."
Xu Lanzhou's cheeks turned slightly red, and she humd softly in response.
The nineteen Xu Lanzhous were still in a sowhat chaotic state. Many of them had never controlled the body as the main personality, so having a body was still a novel experience for them. They looked at each other, and even touched each other, making Bai Zhongqi feel quite embarrassed.
Xu Lanzhou did not seem to intend to talk to her other selves, as if they were tumors cut from her own body, thus unworthy of attention. The earliest erged personality, Xu Guilai, stood aside and sighed at Xu Lanzhou's cold deanor, deciding not to engage aimlessly.
It was Xu Shisan, the most decisive one, who stepped forward. She did not look at Xu Lanzhou, seemingly deliberately ignoring her. Xu Shisan spoke directly to Bai Zhongqi, "Regardless, I express my gratitude to you. However, your knight is Xu Lanzhou, not . I hope to have my own life, not to beco a re accessory to soone."
Bai Zhongqi was not concerned at this mont and generously said, "Of course, you may choose any life you desire, as long as you don't provoke ."
But Bai Zhongqi quickly added, "However, since your soul is still Xu Lanzhou's, although separated, the death of any split personality could harm my knight. Therefore, I cannot completely let you be; you may live on the planets under my rule, but leaving the range of my attention is absolutely not allowed."
Xu Shisan wanted to argue, but Xu Lanzhou spoke up then, asking, "Do you think you have any room to bargain now?"
Xu Shisan raised an eyebrow and replied to Xu Lanzhou, "You failure, the master is back, and you think you, a re dog, can bark now?"
Xu Lanzhou's expression remained unchanged, "If you call a dog, what does that make you, since we are essentially the sa person?"
Xu Shisan did not expect Xu Lanzhou to match her in retorts, huffed twice without a good coback, and turned her head away, ignoring her.
"I need the mbers of my rcenary Corps to return under my command," Xu Shisan told Bai Zhongqi.
Bai Zhongqi smiled and said, "So have already settled into peaceful lives, I hope you won't emotionally blackmail them. As for Yege and those who wish to stay with you, I won't stop them. If you wish to continue running a private security service, as long as you keep out of trouble, it's all fine."
Xu Shisan nodded, looked deeply at himself and Xu Lanzhou one more ti, and then left proudly.
Bai Zhongqi instructed Linyin to assist these 'Xu Lanzhous' in living on Earth or other planets that he had placed in the Virtual Universe. A few were quite like Xu Lanzhou, harboring admiration for the Chancellor, and wished to serve under his command; Bai Zhongqi granted each of their requests.
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