Then, about twenty years ago, I observed your mother, who later became my wife.
As he said this, JOKER's voice trembled slightly, but he quickly regained his composure.
"Your mother... when I started to observe her, it really surprised me!"
Everything about the Xiao family is under my surveillance! My power and influence allow me to do this with ease! I can obtain blood samples from every member of the Xiao family born into the family, and then observe their growth and changes through various methods. Ordinary families like the Xiao family have no idea that I've been observing them for so many years!
At first, I was disappointed because after observing so many members of the Xiao family, I found that their bloodlines and genes offered nothing that would surprise me. I even suspected that perhaps Mingyue was just an anomaly that suddenly appeared in the Xiao family lineage, a chance occurrence. Mingyue's special bloodline and genetic mutation could never happen again.
But just when I was about to give up, I finally saw your mother.
I remember your mother was only fifteen years old at that time, and I was shocked when I first saw her.
Because… I have to say, at that moment, I thought I was seeing the bright moon!
JOKER closed his eyes, as if afraid that Chen Xiao would see the emotions in his eyes. He shook his head and then smiled bitterly: "They... really look alike."
The blue smoke curled around JOKER, whose eyes seemed to gleam with light. At this moment, the strongest man in the world revealed something called tenderness in his eyes.
"They were all equally rebellious and equally intelligent. Back then, Mingyue refused to be bound by her family, disguised herself as a man, and boarded a merchant ship bound for overseas. Your mother, too, refused to accept the fate arranged by her family, but instead craved other strange and unusual things. For a time, I put down everything I was doing and secretly observed her, every day, every hour! I watched her every happy smile, every struggle with those stubborn old men in the family, every triumphant spree, and every moment of dejection."
Your mother was that kind of person, a woman as beautiful and intelligent as the bright moon, a rebellious woman who refused to accept her predetermined fate.
Then, I finally couldn't resist approaching her. I could no longer hide in the shadows and observe her; I began to try to enter her life. She had run away from her family and gone to a university. Hmph... you know, for me, arranging an identity and pretending to be an ordinary person to enter a university is not a difficult thing. So, I appeared, with a new identity, an ordinary person, and approached your mother.
I... fell in love with her.
Decades after Mingyue's death, I fell in love with a girl from the Xiao family, a girl who looked very much like Mingyue.
I must admit that at first, I only hoped to find the shadow of Mingyue in your mother, but gradually, I came to truly like your mother.
What happened next was, as you know, that we fell in love, got married, and had you.
But when you were born, our happiness finally came to an end.
Everything seems to be a cycle! Everything has started all over again!
After Mingyue and I had our child, the child displayed a miraculous new superpower, which made me abandon my family ties and devote myself to a fervent research project.
After you were born, I immediately and secretly gave you a thorough physical examination. To be honest, the results completely shocked me, my child!
At this point, JOKER pointed at Chen Xiao: "My child, I know you've always thought that you gained the ability to copy other people's abilities because you were infected with the 'purification' drug! Actually, you're wrong!"
"I was wrong?"
“You’re wrong.” JOKERR suddenly chuckled. “Let me tell you, the truth is… from the moment you were born, you possessed an amazing ability! You were born with the ability to… copy other people’s superpowers!!”
"They're born with it..."
"Yes, you were born with superpowers! You were born with the special ability to copy other people's superpowers!" JOKER's tone became serious: "The reason why you can erase other people's superpowers when you copy them is because of the 'purification' potion!! Before you were infected by the purification potion, you could copy other people's superpowers! But at that time, the person you copied would not have their superpowers taken away by you."
At first, I was shocked by this discovery!
Because this ability was something no other superhuman in the world possessed at the time! With your ability, you could easily create an unparalleled powerhouse! Going even further, if other superhumans could gain this ability, or even ordinary people could acquire it, then… could anyone in the world, theoretically, become a superhuman?
Chen Xiao looked coldly at JOKERR: "So, you've fallen into fanaticism once again! Just like you did with Mingyue back then, you've done the same thing to me and my mother again! Isn't that right!"
That's about it.
JOKERR nodded: "Remember that button-like miniature syringe I showed you earlier? The potion inside can grant anyone a special ability for a short period of time! The main formula for this potion comes from my research on the genetic components of your blood! I call this achievement... replication! It uses your genes to replicate a special ability, then stores that ability, and uses a specially developed potion to synthesize it, then injects it into anyone, and that person can gain the ability!"
Chen Xiao, back then, in my eyes you were a bridge connecting all the superhumans in the world with ordinary people!
If successful, your existence will allow people with superpowers and humans to truly merge into one world!
JOKER's voice was indeed somewhat fanatical as he stared at Chen Xiao: "Do you know? The first person to benefit from your birth was me!"
"you?"
“Yes. Me.” JOKER smiled. “Originally, my strength was about the same as Lao Tian and the others. I was also an S-class ability user, but I was slightly stronger.”
But your appearance... After studying your genes, the first test subject was me! Through that button-like thing you saw, I copied your power into myself, although the stable effective time is only a little over ninety minutes...
The rest was simple. Using the potion, I gained the ability to 'copy' within ninety minutes! Then, within those ninety minutes, I injected blood samples from some S-rank powerhouses that I had collected into my own body!
Obtaining a blood sample from an S-rank powerhouse would be extremely difficult for anyone else. But for me, as the leader of three major organizations, it's a piece of cake.
In this way, I can freely copy new superpowers within ninety minutes! After ninety minutes, the drug's effects wear off, and I can no longer copy. However, the copied superpowers remain within me!
It's fair to say that... because of you, I have become the strongest person in the world!
Chen Xiao, you are my son, I gave birth to you! But your birth has turned me into a god!
Chapter 298 [A Brilliant Irony]
"The trait you exhibited was a coincidence. The same thing happened to my child with Mingyue back then. It seems that when I marry a girl from the Xiao family, the offspring always have some strange and special abilities. The root cause is that the combination of genes between the two bloodlines produces a wonderful synergistic reaction. Think about it, billions of people in the world cannot have this subtle reaction, but it happened to me and the Xiao family. If you call this a coincidence, I would rather say it is the arrangement of fate."
Chen Xiao nodded, a hint of mockery in his eyes: "You call yourself a god, do gods also believe in fate?"
“You’re mocking me, mocking your father,” JOKER said, squinting.
Chen Xiao threw away the cigarette in his hand, then stood up. He slightly raised his chin and looked at the man in front of him: "Tell me, where is my mother? How did she die? Since you are the most powerful person in this world, then my guess back then that you were coerced by the club to conduct experiments and eventually died in an accident is no longer valid. Tell me, how did my mother die?"
“You know everything.” JOKER sighed, touching his nose—even this habitual gesture was almost identical between the two of them. He seemed to chuckle. “It was indeed a laboratory accident. But it wasn’t an accident; it was something your mother did on purpose. In fact, later I told her my identity, what I was going to do, that our son, you, would become the strongest superhuman in history, and everything about ‘God.’ Then, my mother and I had a huge conflict. For a long time, her mental state was very poor.”
"How did you drive her to her death?" Chen Xiao clenched his hands.
“How could you think that?” JOKER shook his head: “That was a plan she had been plotting for a long time. She used your genes back then, and through the principle of reverse engineering, we created the ‘purification’ potion, you know? In my plan, a true god possesses far more than just ‘giving’.”