For no reason, Su Xin was a little panicked, but after careful consideration, it didn't make sense. Although the emotional foundation was weak, why should she feel guilty about getting along with the marriage ship?
[Helena] raised her hand to wipe it, but it stopped in mid-air. She lowered her eyes and said helplessly, "Sister, go wash up first. I'm dirty and she's sleeping. Let's talk outside."
Su Xin nodded, and as if she was irritated by some words, she insisted on grabbing the other person's bloody and mucus-stained hand, and pulled the person to open the door and go out.
Tiancheng, Yixian, the maid and others who were waiting outside were surprised when they opened the door and saw the extremely disheveled Helena behind the young commander.
Fortunately, everyone understood that it would be difficult to talk while blocking the door, so they all went back to their rooms to take care of things, then went downstairs to sit quietly, waiting for the commander and Helena to come out after they had finished washing up.
Su Xin in the bathroom originally wanted to let Helena take a shower and wash the wound first, and then she would simply wash up and help deal with the problem.
But the other party was like a newly born baby animal, unwilling to let Su Xin leave his sight, and there was an inexplicable fear hidden under his cold expression.
Su Xin had no choice but to follow him in.
She lifted the switch, and the shower head equipped with a water heater sprayed cold water for about ten seconds, then gradually raised the temperature until it was close to her skin.
"Can you... uh, take a shower first? I'll help you wash your hair after I finish brushing my teeth."
[Helena] stared at the little commander, nodded silently, and then poured the warm water over her body without taking off her clothes.
After all, it is a wedding ship, it is impossible to treat them as friends and relatives.
Su Xin was still worrying about how to persuade the other party to leave her underwear on instead of getting naked, but when she saw this scene, she felt distressed and quickly put down her toothbrush and ran over to persuade him.
"Wait... Let me do it. Can you wait for me? Take off your clothes and I can wash my face after you take them off."
"...good."
"Hmm... Really, you're already this old, do you still need me to worry about taking a bath...?"
[Helena] looked at Su Xin, who was brushing her teeth and rinsing her mouth with her hair down, and sighed softly, yet it seemed heavy:
"Just... I miss my sister..."
Chapter 928: Long-lost Warmth
"Can you wash your clothes yourself?"
"...Yes, thank you."
"Why should I be so polite? I was just acting like I would cry if you dare to leave."
[Helena] pursed her lips and looked at Su Xin who was washing a towel with her head down not far in front of her. She opened her mouth but in the end said nothing.
He just kept his eyes fixed on that figure, as if all the difficulties would no longer be a problem as long as the other person was there.
The little conductor standing in front of the sink looked down at the turbid sewage. In addition to plaster, it was also mixed with blood stains and unknown mucus, which seemed to affect his mood.
But when she thought of Helena, who had been covered in all this dirt for who knows how long, her heart softened.
Although I gave the ring to the other person, it was more out of comfort than love.
But after all, this was the little light cruiser she had raised carefully, and it had been chasing her for countless years. She didn't even have time to feel sorry for it, and seeing the way it was staring at her eagerly, it would be a lie to say she wasn't touched.
Along with the pain, she was even a little angry.
"Where's the ring? I specially sharpened it with a piece of metal. Why don't you use it now that it's damaged like this? Is it out of energy?"
"...It's too dirty."
"What did you say? Just because it's dirty, we don't need it? Did I give it to you so you can keep it as a family heirloom?!"
Su Xin was rarely angry. While changing the water in the sink, she turned her head and wanted to scold him again, but when she saw the scars all over the snow-white body, she became silent again.
"...I'm sorry, sister." Helena's face was pale, and her long blue hair, which was originally as blue as glass, now clung down. "But it is very important to me."
"That's not a reason. It's as if you're not important."
Su Xin swallowed her anger and washed the towel with clean water before moving closer. "Wash carefully. Don't you notice the black and white spots on your body? How dare you say you can wash it yourself?"
[Helena] curled her fingers and did not dodge, allowing the girl who was slightly shorter than her to help wipe her body with a handkerchief.
She could feel the other person's compassion from the gentle movements that were different from words. When he approached the wound, it was always as gentle as a breeze. There was no pain, but more numbness and itchiness.
"You are so many times older than me, but you still don't know how to take care of yourself. Have you forgotten everything I taught you?"
"...No, I remember everything."
"I didn't see you do that. I've already told you that no matter what happens in the future, you should put your own safety first. But you think the ring is more important than the person, right?"
"…because it's a wedding ring."
Su Xin paused while wiping the area near her collarbone, looked up at Helena who was still staring at her, and moved to the wound and pressed it lightly in an unhappily.
“It won’t hurt you.
"........."
"What? You're already home, why are you still holding it in? Didn't you never hold it in before..."
No matter how slow-witted a person is, he or she should know that he or she has said something wrong. Su Xin certainly understood this and subconsciously licked the roof of her mouth, "...I'm sorry, I was..."
[Helena] blinked, raised her hand to take the handkerchief and began to wipe her chest, "...It's okay, didn't my sister already explain it to me? That is indeed the best way."
It was indeed a good idea. It would have been even better if the obsession caused by her death escape could be worn away by time, and if Helena had not spent countless hours looking for her.
Su Xin has always felt very sorry about this matter. Although she provided help and the capital for survival to the past "Helena", she also took away other reasons for her to live.
"...They will be able to go home soon. When they do, they will definitely be surprised to see you grow up so big and become so beautiful."
[Helena] relaxed her brows and smiled, "...Well, I always envied Anbao before, but now I have grown up."
Even if the cost is extremely heavy.
Su Xin didn't want to continue talking about this. The account could not be settled clearly. She could only make up for it in the future. As for now, she was more concerned about the reasons that caused Helena's current miserable condition.
"So can you stop staring at me? I won't run away, and doesn't it hurt that you have water in your eyes?"
"......pain."
"Then close your eyes, squat down, and I'll wash your hair."
"......oh."
[Helena] squatted down obediently, but was reluctant to close her eyes. The two of them were in a stalemate for a moment. Finally, she held the little commander's ankle with one hand to make sure he was still there, and then she lowered her head.
Su Xin, wearing a sling and barefoot, felt the hand clenched on her ankle. It felt like a pair of shackles, locked tightly without leaving any gaps.
She didn't understand what was going on, so she could only suppress her doubts for the time being. She rinsed the hair with the shower head, squeezed some shampoo, rubbed out bubbles, and then applied it to the other person's head.
"Don't open your eyes, it hurts."
"Ah."
"They are all tangled... and some are like sticky gum. What on earth are these things..."
"......body fluid."
Su Xin was stunned. "Whose? Slime's?"
[Helena] couldn't help but burst out laughing. Those things were much uglier and more disgusting than slimes, but they did have some common features.
The young commander finally felt relieved when he heard her smile and focused on washing his hair.
Unlike the last time I helped Tori with the hair, Helena's hair was stickier and thicker, as if it was soaked in something like soot and dirt, and was difficult to wash out.
And according to Helena's description, they seem to be unable to be cleaned by brushing, and can only be scrubbed clean bit by bit, which is very energy-consuming.
Su Xin squeezed out half of the shampoo bottle again and again, and finally it was all used up, so she just used shower gel instead.
The hot water in the water heater had long been exhausted, and the cold water flowed down Helena's hair onto the ground. After a long time, the barefoot Commander Su was freezing.
Fortunately, after her unremitting efforts, including her body, Helena, who had been squatting for half an hour, finally recovered her neatness and stood up with her snow-white eyes.
Su Xin took a look at the wound. It was still red, so it wasn't a big deal. It could be treated with a piece of metal. But the mental damage was...
"Do you want to go to sleep for a while?" She took out her clothes and handed them to him, asking casually.
[Helena] shook her head. After putting on her clothes, she still looked at the young commander without blinking, "There are still clothes and ship uniforms to wash."
"Well... let's take a break first? How about taking a shower after you've rested? Everyone is worried about you.
"......Um."
Su Xin breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the thin short-sleeved shirt that could not hide her spring light, turned around, opened the door and asked the maid for help.
Dido hurriedly handed over the unopened underwear, watched her master accompany the other party to change clothes, and then promptly handed over two cups of slightly hot water.
"...Thank you." Helena, who sat next to Su Xin, took a sip and felt much warmer. "...I'm sorry, it happened suddenly and I'm not in the right mood."
Tiancheng shook his head. "So what happened, can you tell us? Or... do we need to avoid it?"
"No, there's nothing to hide. After all, I might still appear in front of you like this later, so it's more convenient to explain it all at once."
[Helena] slowed down after saying that, took a deep breath, stared at her legs that were pressed tightly against Su Xin's, and softly recounted her experiences during this period.
"It was a world full of chaos and dirt."
Chapter 929 Spring
"This is a... filthy experimental field."
Helena, who had just avoided the [space disturbance], lowered her head and looked at the wet, dark and strange-feeling ground, and gave her first impression.
However, considering that this experimental field is within the invasion range of [Space Disturbance], it is understandable that some strange things would occur.
"Rather... it's a little weird that a standard [META ship] could be born under such circumstances."
[Helena] She pulled out her phone, which showed no signal, and called up the compass, only to find that the needle kept freezing and spinning, completely useless.
Because of the Earth-like structure of the experimental site, this situation is relatively rare, but it has happened before.
She glanced at the green app with no new message notifications, turned off the screen, and instead took out a pinky-finger-long metal rod, pinched both ends and twisted it.
A light blue light emanates from the gap in the middle, spreading out to a radius of dozens of meters with the metal rod as the center. After a moment, it retracts into the gap and displays the result on the surface of the small rod.
【Unknown substance concentration: 76%】
"...This is the first time I've encountered such a high index." Helena put away the metal rod and scanned the dim environment. "It seems that other things are useless."
She raised her eyes to look at the sky. It was pitch black, as if something like a dark cloud blocked the light, leaving the world in a permanent state of twilight before dawn.
But if you look closely, you can find that the "dark cloud" seems to have strange characteristics.
If it is really a dark cloud as generally understood, with uniform thickness, it is unlikely that light will penetrate through the middle part. If you want to see the sunlight, you have to wait for the entire cloud to pass.
But it was different. Even though the sky was gray, Helena could still occasionally see tiny lights like sand, twinkling in it.
She tried to raise the muzzle of the gun and shoot into the sky.
A blazing flame lit up, and the shells carrying hot flames rapidly rose in altitude, but at a certain moment they quickly dissipated.
"..It's like a piece of butter dropped into a hot pan."
[Helena] lowered her eyes, stopped making meaningless attempts, and prepared to carry out her mission.
[Ashes] is different from [Sirens] in that its members cannot be mass-produced, and there is no guarantee that all of their kind will be willing to join, so there is an extreme shortage of manpower.
They need to spend their energy to delay the spread and invasion of [space disturbance], and at the same time seize every opportunity to find [META ships] whose worlds are on the verge of destruction.
There can only be one [META ship] that meets the requirements in a world.
They have to find out those who have accepted [METAization] but whose minds have not been corrupted by [META energy], who have seen the true nature of the experimental field, and who have mastered the ability to be independent of the world, and persuade them to join.
This kind of existence does not exist in a peaceful world.
Therefore, [Helena] and [Enterprise] chose to come to the edge of the [space disturbance] and search around for those experimental sites that had been affected by the [disturbance] and were completely beyond repair.
The more capable [Enterprise] will be responsible for delaying the invasion of [Disturbance], while [Helena] will be relatively safer and help find new members.
But Helena knew clearly that this arrangement was not entirely due to the fighting power of the two of them, but also partly because of Enterprise's care for her.
What are you taking care of?
[Helena] lowered her eyes, raised her hand and gently stroked the silver ring on her ring finger. It was simple in style and had no decorations, but it had captured her heart firmly.
"...I haven't seen you for a long time, sister."
She murmured in a trance, suppressed her attachment, and with a little effort, took the ring off her ring finger and put it away properly.
"Well...don't get it dirty.
"Pyr
