Ben10: A Romantic Adventure with a Gender-Swapped Class

"Elena!" He suddenly mustered all his strength and, with his voice, which had just regained a little freedom, hoarsely shouted towards the protective shield, filled with disbelief, shock, and a premonition.

Hearing Mo Bai's heart-wrenching scream, Elena, who was hovering in front of the protective shield, managed to twitch her chip-made lips upwards with extreme difficulty and for an extremely brief moment.

It was a smile.

A smile that was extremely vague, yet seemed to contain a thousand words, and ultimately returned to tranquility.

Then, she no longer hesitated.

Her body, the body made up of countless chips, suddenly lurched forward.

Silently... it passed through the dark blue energy shield that represented absolute destruction!

Sizzle—!!!

The instant her body came into contact with the energy of the protective shield, a shrill scream, so piercing it was inhuman, mixed with high-frequency current and the disintegration of metal, suddenly erupted from inside the shield.

The sound pierced through the eardrums and went straight to the soul.

A blindingly bright light erupted from inside the protective shield.

Elena's body, like a snowflake thrown into a steel furnace, began to visibly collapse and disintegrate the moment it came into contact with the energy of the protective shield!

Every chip that made up her body trembled violently, melted, and finally turned into the finest metallic dust, shimmering with its last light, in that destructive energy field.

The process was brutally fast. In just two or three seconds, the suspended figure, along with all the chip consciousness within her body and that she controlled, completely turned into a silver powder that shimmered with faint starlight and permeated the protective shield.

Like a speck of stardust that suddenly vanishes in the universe.

at the same time.

Inside the laboratory, all the "Vitovalida" chip clones that were frantically attacking were like machines whose power had been simultaneously cut off!

Their waving tentacles instantly stiffened, the light in their pale chip eyes went out, and the chips that made up their bodies scattered like sand sculptures that had lost their stickiness, turning into countless dull, cold metal fragments that covered every inch of the laboratory floor.

The once bustling battlefield instantly fell into a deathly silence.

The heavy chip shell binding Mo Bai's body also peeled off and dissipated rapidly, like melting ice and snow.

He took a deep breath of air filled with burnt and metallic dust, coughed violently, and the transformation ended, returning him to human form.

He staggered to his feet, his chest heaving, but his gaze remained fixed on the dark blue protective shield.

Inside the protective shield, there was only a slowly sinking silver powder, which, under the glow of the dark blue light, resembled a silent sigh.

The shock and anger on his face slowly faded, eventually turning into a strange, almost ethereal calm.

Numerous images uncontrollably flooded his mind: the innocence in Elena's eyes when they first met, the way she saved the day with the laser gun, and even... that shy yet tentative embrace...

Although brief and ultimately leading to an irreversible end, those moments truly existed.

Xiao Ban also deactivated his transformation and quickly walked to Mo Bai's side.

Looking at Mo Bai's dazed profile, she felt a mix of emotions herself. She reached out and gently grasped Mo Bai's cold hand with her warm fingers, her voice trembling slightly with a hint of comfort.

"That's not Elena; the chip controlled her a long time ago."

Mo Bai's hand twitched slightly, but she did not immediately respond to Xiao Ban's words.

He slowly and very slightly shook his head, his gaze still fixed on the silver dust in the deep blue, his voice low and calm, as if stating a fact, or as if trying to convince himself.

“Maybe she was just here,” he said, then gently released Xiao Ban’s hand.

His gaze shifted to the corner of the laboratory—there lay the white rose that had survived the previous battle, but was now scorched by flames and stained with ash, along with the equally disheveled eucalyptus leaf.

He walked over silently, bent down, and gently picked them up from the cold metal floor.

He stretched out his fingers and carefully, bit by bit, brushed away the dust from the scorched edges of the white rose petals and the eucalyptus leaves, his movements so focused it was as if he were performing some kind of ritual.

Then, he turned around, holding the two remaining items, and slowly but firmly walked to the dark blue protective shield. He bent down again and gently placed the scarred white rose and the eucalyptus branch side by side on the cold edge of the shield.

The delicate petals and resilient branches clung to the eerie blue light that had destroyed everything, creating a strange contrast between fragility and eternity, life and annihilation.

He slowly straightened up and quietly looked at the flower.

His face showed no anger, no sadness, only a profound tranquility after a storm.

Perhaps, this white rose that struggled to survive in the brutal battlefield and still tried to show a trace of purity, and the eucalyptus that symbolizes resilience, are the last and most silent farewell he can give to this former friend and companion.

"Go, go."

He took one last look at the flower and the dust in the deep blue, his voice calm and undisturbed.

After saying that, he didn't linger. He turned around and walked steadily past Xiaowen and Kevin, who were standing not far away, watching everything in silence. He walked towards the laboratory exit without looking back.

Xiao Ban immediately followed, and as she passed by Xiao Wen and Kevin, she quickly gave them a look.

His eyes conveyed a complex message: "Don't ask," "Follow me," and "Leave this place."

Xiaowen and Kevin exchanged a glance, both seeing the answer in each other's eyes.

They didn't ask a single question, but turned around in tacit understanding and silently followed Mo Bai and Xiao Ban's footsteps toward Kevin's car parked outside the back door of the laboratory.