Chapter 138 - 125: Narrative Cage (15)
"On the transport ship, the last female soldier who died was named Angelina, and her daughter Anna is the creator of this drawing."
Li Cheng showed the children’s drawing and said, "It’s not hard to guess what happened next. After retiring with the rank of colonel, Aisha returned to neighboring A-star and adopted Anna, the daughter of her comrade-in-arms Angelina left behind in the world—the last photo lacked the figure of a father, so I surmise Angelina’s husband died quite early."
"The relationship between the adoptive mother and daughter was very good, but an accident occurred along the way."
He took out the newspaper articles titled "A food poisoning case occurred in a school district in A-star" and "Terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in the city district," and said, "Anna died unnaturally due to some reason, which greatly stimulated Aisha, a once-decorated veteran, pushing her to the extreme. She attacked and detonated a nuclear bomb against some government or organization or individual in neighboring A-star."
"The story line thereafter is relatively simple. She escaped from the Zeluo civilization’s star system, shed her human shell, and in the form of a skeleton, became the interstellar pirate Isaac.
"Not until the end of the Iron Plague War did she return to her homeland to save a small group of Zeluo civilization survivors."
"And then, due to some accident, she was arrested by the Crystal Wall System Residence Committee and locked up in this Narrative Cage."
From the televisions on the four walls, the mechanical voice of the Prison Director came through, "Entirely...correct."
Li Cheng, still showing no change of expression even after confirmation, calmly said, "However, there’s a problem with this hypothesis. Recall the scene on the transport ship; Aisha, or rather Isaac, did not seem to be a veteran with severe PTSD and unstable emotions."
"If her adoptive daughter Anna died accidentally due to food poisoning at school, she should not have resorted to such violent methods to seek revenge.
"There must be some hidden details. Could you clarify my doubts?"