"Sister Axia, I know you have a lot of doubts in your heart. Actually, I don't know very well what's going on."

Teresa thought for a while and said, "Let's explain this matter slowly. Now, let's check the surroundings first and figure out the situation in the core area of ​​the bridge!"

It is said to be a survey, but in fact, it is a silver-white space that is hundreds of meters square. Whether on the ground or on the wall, it is as soft as fine sand and rubber. With a light force between your hands, you can penetrate it. Even if you hit hard, you will get a huge buffer.

Such flexible materials ensure the safety of crew members and equipment when the starship is hit violently.

But the surroundings were empty and there was no mechanism to secretly say that Teresa and Princess Asa were puzzled and did not understand what to do next.

It may not be that they will be locked up here for the rest of their lives, right?

Teresa recalled the details of the attack just now, pondered for a moment, and gently cut it with a broken knife in her palm, cutting out a bloody wound, leaving a bright red palm print on the ground.

Sure enough, the blood drops in the palm print were quickly absorbed by the fine silver-white sand. Immediately afterwards, the fine metal sand surged like a fountain, with a larger range and higher height. In the end, it turned into a pile of silver-white cylinders that were more than one person tall.

The cylinder was like steel just taken out of the furnace, and the iron kept flowing downwards, quickly revealing the outline of a tall and toned woman. Soon, her facial features, limbs, fingers and toes were separated, and a vivid statue made of liquid metal was presented in front of Teresa and Princess Asa.

"ah--"

Princess Asha exclaimed.

It was not because of the liquid metal statue that surged from the ground, but because the appearance of this statue looked like Teresa!

It cannot be said that their facial features are exactly the same, but only the charm between the eyebrows and eyes, and the heroic temperament, have a feeling of blood connection, like a real sister or a mother and daughter.

Teresa was also surprised and felt like she was looking in the mirror.

She knew very well that her true self was not like this now. Why was this liquid metal statue so similar to what she had made by "amoeba" Eric?

As the two of them were gaze, the liquid metal statue completely separated from the floor, the facial details were portrayed more vividly, and even the eyelashes were visible. It - her silver-white eyelashes were trembling slightly, and soon, they opened their eyes.

Her eyes were clearly made of silver-white liquid metal, but it was filled with a magnificent brilliance like a rainbow, as if the dusty eye waves flowed through Princess Asha and stayed on Teresa.

"You are finally here, the carrier of the 'Witch Gene'."

The woman cast in liquid metal spoke, her voice was invisible, without any emotion, and she seemed like a cold machine.

"ah!"

Princess Axia covered her mouth in surprise, but she didn't expect that this thing could speak.

Although Theresa was shocked in her heart, she was better than Prince Axia after all. She took a step back, took a deep breath, and said, "You, who are you? Are you... the artificial intelligence in the central control system of the Jade Number?"

The other party tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "Yes, I am the Jade Number itself, or in more ancient language to describe it. It is the central thinking core in the Jade Number's fully automatic control system. Some kind of super artificial intelligence, you can directly call me - 'Jade'."

"Then what you look like..." Teresa subconsciously stroked her cheek and hesitated.

"This is the image of the last captain of the Emerald, Kelly Conna. After she died in battle, the Emerald also consumed all its energy and was extremely damaged. It had to enter a dormant state and undergo an automatic repair for ten thousand years."

Jade said with a straight look, "At that time, most of the crew members who mastered starship maintenance and operation skills were all killed in escape and civil war. In accordance with the "Emergency Response Regulations", I temporarily took over the captain's position and quietly waited for the arrival of the new captain in the dark."

"So that's it. Is the so-called 'Witch Kelly' or 'Crimson Queen' the last human captain of the Emerald? So, 'Crimson Queen' is the highest control authority of the Emerald, or the captain's throne?"

Teresa suddenly realized, but fell into deeper confusion, "Wait, what did you call me just now? You said I am...'carrier of the witch gene', what is that?"

"Don't you know it yourself?"

Jade said, "If you are not a carrier of the witch gene, you will not be able to enter the core area of ​​the bridge, nor will you activate the automatic defense system, and you are not qualified to talk to me - you will be mercilessly shattered like the tentacles of the alien life as soon as you invade the core area of ​​the bridge."

Only then did Teresa realize that the reason why her desperate bet was successful was not because of her pitiful "first-level firepower control authority", but because of the "witch gene" contained in her blood, and what the hell was it!

"It is not an easy task to lead a superstar ship like the Tongyu Emerald to escape the pursuit of the flood tide and wander forever on the endless star path."

Jade explained, "So, when every new captain takes office, he must read all the navigation logs left by all the captains in front and master all their skills in order to be able to barely compete with it."

"The brain of carbon-based intelligent life cannot digest and absorb such a huge amount of data in a short period of time. Therefore, the Yuanshi clan invented the superb technology of ‘gene learning’, embedding a large amount of information related to starship control, command, and combat into gene fragments.

"For millions of years of wandering the galaxy, every captain of the Emerald will silently cultivate this super gene containing infinite wisdom in his body, and before he dies, it will be passed on to the next captain. When the next captain gets the genetic fragments of hundreds of generations of captains in front of him, manipulating the starship becomes his instinct, just like a baby will suck and cry when he is born.

"When Captain Kelly's turn to keep her inheritance, the situation became even more serious - at that time, the Jade had only 1% energy reserve, while the damage range reached more than 90%, which was the standard "big break".

"The automated reproduction and cultivation system of crew members has been destroyed, which means that the new generation of crew members can only rely on natural reproduction and word of mouth, and must not master the mysterious and complex starship operation skills. It is expected that within the next few thousand years, no one will be able to take the position of captain and lead the Emerald to fly back to the starry sea.

"Therefore, Captain Kelly proposed all the gene essences that have condensed hundreds of generations of captains, exhausted the last energy, copied and sealed. I hope that after tens of millions of years, the energy reserves and technical conditions will be mature again and the Jadeite will be generally restored, and the descendants of Jadeite will extract the gene code-named "Witch" and inject it into their bodies to become candidates for the new captain."

Theresa was stunned when she heard this.

It has condensed the genetic essence of hundreds of generations of Captain Emerald, and it sounds very powerful.

However, I had just traveled to the Emerald Continent and had no chance to get in touch with this "witch gene". How could I have become a carrier for no reason?

etc--
Chapter completed!