Chapter 455 - 394: The Origin of the Inner Space
Chapter 455: Chapter 394: The Origin of the Inner Space
Flora Bloom hadn’t finished her sentence, but Lex Cross’s single, resolute word, delivered with a determined look, greatly reassured her.
"But... if your fiancée dies, won’t your family object?"
"When it comes to my life, no one makes the decisions but you."
"But isn’t she your fiancée? You’d be okay with that?"
"I never acknowledged her as such. The old fogeys in my family arranged it to strengthen ties between our clans. You don’t have to worry about me."
Flora Bloom blushed under Lex Cross’s intense gaze. "What are you looking at me for? She’s not one of us. Plus, she killed people on my Earth. How could I possibly let her get away with it?"
"Of course, of course. My Flora is always so principled. She would never let personal feelings lead her to do something irrational, would she?"
Lex Cross’s words made Flora Bloom blush even harder. She steeled herself and glared at him with wide eyes. "You’d better believe it!"
"But Flora, there’s one thing. Nina Rook’s arrival means Earth’s location is no longer a secret. As the spatial rifts become more numerous, more outsiders will be arriving here in the near future. We all need to be on high alert."
When Lex Cross and Flora Bloom reappeared holding hands, Lex’s gaze was fixed on Flora, not sparing even a single glance for Nina Rook.
Deprived of her freedom while under the watch of The Crown Prince and a man called Civet, and unable to capture Lex Cross’s attention, Nina Rook slowly began to feel a sense of unease.
’Where did it all go wrong? Why is Lex Cross treating me like this?’
She tried asking again and again, but a black energy constantly surrounded her. With her movements restrained by The Crown Prince and Civet, she couldn’t budge, and her words went unheard.
Nina Rook finally sensed that something was amiss, but it was too late. She knew that to truly recover her strength, she needed to fully merge with this body.
However, completing the fusion would still take another three months.
If she wanted to break free sooner, she could simply abandon this body and find a new one. However, fusing with a new body would take even longer, and her powers would recover much more slowly after a second fusion.
In this backward, apocalyptic world, it was truly difficult to find the body of a beautiful, female superpower user like Rita, one that was still pure and unsullied.
At that moment, Nina Rook was still unaware that Flora Bloom and Lex Cross had already decided her fate. The logic was simple: If outside invaders—like Lex Cross and his twelve companions—were to use the bodies of people on the brink of death to continue their own lives on Earth, that would be unobjectionable.
After all, they weren’t infringing upon anyone’s life or interests.
But this Nina Rook had killed so many people just to find a suitable body. And she performed the fusions while her victims were still alive.
Even though they had never particularly liked Rita, she was still a human being. During the fusion, Nina had absorbed Rita’s Life Force and soul energy, watching as the body’s original owner was consumed by her and vanished from the world. Could she really have felt not even a shred of guilt?
This was what Flora Bloom found so terrifying about Nina Rook.
She had never been particularly averse to outsiders. After all, her impression of Lex Cross and the other twelve had always been that of tough guys who defied the powerful.
Most importantly, thanks to the influence of their professions during their years on Earth, they would never, ever harm the public interest or endanger people’s lives without cause.
It wasn’t until she thought about how Nina Rook had sacrificed so many people with superpowers just to acquire a suitable body that it truly dawned on her.
The very nature of an invader is to cause harm.
Throughout history, whenever invasion was involved, people died.
So, if Earth was destined to be invaded by these outsiders, survival would mean not only fighting off the zombies but also guarding against the invaders who could soon be everywhere.
Flora Bloom had originally planned to just pull Nina Rook into her space and be done with it. But as it turned out, Nina Rook also belonged to a higher species, and she wasn’t human.
Pulling her into the space could temporarily force her to acknowledge Flora as her master.
However, Nina Rook’s family was not to be trifled with. If one of their descendants was ever controlled or killed, a unique racial mark would be branded onto the perpetrator.
Using that mark, they would hunt the person relentlessly.
That was why Flora Bloom could neither pull Nina into her space nor kill her outright. A soul that had not fully fused with its body could choose to abandon it upon facing a fatal attack and simply find a new host.