I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1219 - 1109: Gu Cultivation and the Main Body

Do you find me pleasing to the eye?

Upon hearing this, Leon raised his eyebrows, seemingly recalling something. After flipping through the passive effects of his pile of badges, he thoughtfully asked:

"Do you have any title like Queen or something?"

"No."

"Are you married? Or nominally married and very dissatisfied with your current life?"

"Neither..."

As Leon's questions grew stranger, the mermaid statue furrowed its brows, somewhat puzzled, and asked:

"Why are you asking these things?"

"I'm asking because I naturally want to know the answers."

"??? "

"Actually, I have a few more questions. Considering that we're kind of the same race... Are you the type who likes to steal love or has a special fetish for married men?"

"No..."

After answering several questions in confusion, the mermaid statue couldn't help but ask Leon, who was frowning in thought in front of it:

"Is there any meaning to your strange questions?"

There is meaning, and it's significant.

After carefully checking the badge effects on the panel that could "increase affinity," Leon looked up at the mermaid sculpture pinned to the rock base by a trident, squinted his eyes, and asked:

"One last question... are you really dead?"

"?"

The mermaid statue was slightly taken aback and then pointed to its chest with some difficulty.

I'm like this, do you think I could still be alive?

"Or let me put it another way... When your world was completely destroyed by other 'tribesmen,' is there any will, embodiment, or something else of yours that still lingers?"

"You?!"

After hearing Leon's question, the mermaid statue couldn't help but pout slightly, looking a little displeased, and said:

"Didn't your guide have an issue? How do you know my world was destroyed by other tribesmen? Did you... just deceive me?"

This world really was destroyed by other "tribesmen"?

Looking at the mermaid statue whose eyes revealed a hint of surprise, Leon, having successfully tested the waters, subconsciously took a deep breath, feeling a slight swelling on both sides of his temples.

Based on the current situation, these remnants of different numbered "roots races" likely don't have a cooperative relationship, but rather a competitive one where it's a win-or-die situation.

As for what Evangelin didn't want to tell him, that so-called ultimate mission probably can only be completed by the last survivor in this competitive mode among them...

"My guide indeed had an issue."

Under Evangelin's discontented gaze, Leon slightly clenched his fists and said:

"It might be because my group undertook a large migration in the past, which led to many changes from the predetermined situation. Someone entered the roots before I awakened.

And that person awoke the guide that belonged to me, prematurely exhausted the time left for me. By the time I arrived at the roots, my guide was almost disappearing, only managing to tell me to go to Old Soil before falling silent."

"Then how do you know... You didn't just guess, did you?"

After giving Leon a slightly surprised look, the mermaid statue nodded knowingly and said:

"That's right. Since you are my 'tribesman,' you naturally wouldn't fail to notice something strange about this world. With some thought, analyzing these isn't difficult.

So did your suspicion arise because you couldn't find the roots? Or did you sense the color of the roots from another world on the weapon that nailed me down?"

"More or less..."

Actually, it was because you can absorb my roots color, and the roots color you absorbed can't be supplemented in this world. I can't even feel the existence of roots.

These two discoveries—firstly, prove that "we" as a race can seize each other's power without needing others' permission. Secondly, it proves that the roots of this world might have serious issues. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Considering the desolate and dead state of this world, your appearance of having fought bravely to the end, and your likely stronger strength than the third-generation bureau chief... being killed by other "Roots" is almost the only answer that fits.

"Tsk... you're quite good-looking, but this suspicious nature is not endearing."

After waiting a while for no further explanation and seeing Leon was ready to brush her off with just "more or less," the mermaid statue couldn't help but pout unhappily and remarked:

"I might not have told you everything, but haven't I answered almost everything you've asked? And yet you give me such half-hearted responses!

Moreover, I've died this much already, revived for such a short while only thanks to the roots color you gave, and you're still guarding against me?"

"Sorry, just a habit."

With little genuine remorse, Leon looked at "Evangelin" before him and reminded:

"Besides, you still haven't answered my previous question. Are you completely dead? No incarnations, will, or anything left behind?"

"I... might have something left?"

Upon hearing this, the mermaid statue blinked and then said uncertainly:

"I'm not only a statue; I also controlled the roots of this world. At the moment of being completely killed, I left a shadow imprinted on this world, so my main body must be very dead.

But for someone at my level, being killed doesn't mean complete annihilation inherently, so if my will was strong enough, I should still have something left?"

"I understand..."

After listening to the mermaid statue's answer, Leon couldn't help but clench his fist, feeling a slight headache.

This "Evangelin" in front of him is undoubtedly the same as the Evangelin he knows!

The mermaid statue doesn't meet any passive conditions for increasing affinity, yet it has a great appreciation for his looks. Even when "tricked" and "guarded against," it's still willing to answer questions truthfully. That's clearly unusual.

In contrast, the mermaid beauty being married and yearning for freedom can fully receive the affinity bonus from [Disaster of the Ocean]. On top of that, she's now likely usurped to become queen, also benefitting from the Soft Rice badge's "special attack" against queens.

The mermaid statue clearly doesn't meet these conditions but perfectly benefits from the affinity bonuses of [Disaster of the Ocean] and [The Man Behind the Queen (White)], proving she and Evangelin are the same! Even viewed as part of the mermaid beauty, the current Evangelin is her "main body"!