The two people became quiet again. After a long while, Xie Yi said carefully, "I would like to know how we can solve our problem." His expression was firm. "Mind you, I won't give up this body."
The dark alter ego sneered. "So you'll continue to control this body and I'll continue to live in this world?"
Xie Yi frowned. "That's not what I meant. Boss said just now that we can cooperate with each other. Since that's the case, why not we continue this cooperation?"
"Continue cooperating? How? By releasing me every few days?" The dark alter ego was not pleased.
"I'm not sure either. However, I believe that my boss will know." Xie Yi revealed his trust in Ling Lan through his eyes."You think your boss knows everything?" The dark alter ego glanced at Ling Lan with doubt. Although she was very strong and he feared her, he didn't have much hope that she would be able to solve their problem.
"Of course, my boss will definitely find a solution," Xie Yi replied with certainty.
Fine, he was brainwashed! Before the dark alter ego could reply, Xie Yi raised his voice and shouted, "Boss!"
"Yes?" Ling Lan appeared before them within a second and looked at them calmly.
"Boss, do you know how to solve our problem?" Xie Yi asked hopefully.
Ling Lan shook her head. "I'm not sure if my idea will work."
Xie Yi's eyes brightened. His boss had an idea, but she just didn't know if it would work. He knew that his boss was trustworthy. Xie Yi gave the dark alter ego a pleased look, but the latter almost choked in anger.The dark alter ego sneered at Xie Yi. "He doesn't know if his idea will work yet. What are you being so proud for?"
Xie Yi immediately turned his head towards Ling Lan. He hoped that Ling Lan's idea would be able to give a blow to this arrogant and irritating dark alter ego.
Ling Lan shook her head. Xie Yi seemed to become more stupid after he met his dark alter ego. She was starting to doubt whether merging the two of them was a good idea after all. Xie Yi used to be a smart fellow.
Ling Lan covered her mouth and coughed. She felt that she needed to believe in her comrades and not underestimate them. She said calmly, "We need to find the reason why you two appeared in order to solve the problem."
The dark alter ego nodded at Ling Lan's words, feeling that Xie Yi's boss was still quite responsible. Xie Yi nodded his head furiously, too. As expected of his boss—he was always so thorough.
"From what I see, the spiritual fusion between the two of you will create an extremely strong spiritual power. This spiritual power can cause harm to the body and hence, the body's self-defense mechanism kicked in and split your spiritual power into two before you gained consciousness. That's why you have a split personality. This should be the special ability of the Xie family's bloodline. A lot of babies with strong spiritual power tend to die the moment they're born, while those that manage to survive will have to be bedridden for their entire life."
Ling Lan recalled how she was sick for the entirety of her previous life and she remembered how Li Lanfeng had poor health, too. The reason behind both cases was that they had overly powerful spiritual power. The Xie family's bloodline was actually quite nature-defying, enabling babies with strong spiritual power to survive and have a healthy body. Due to their strong spiritual power, these children would learn things faster, too.
However, you need to pay for what you get. If the descendants of the Xie family wanted to become strong, they needed to face the so-called devil in their hearts, which was their sealed alter ego. This process was very ingenious.
"The awakening of your alter ego proves that your body was strong enough to hold your other personality," Ling Lan explained seriously to Xie Yi. "Your body had the extra energy to handle the sealed ego, which was why your dark alter ego appeared.
"In other words, there is no such thing as a devil in your heart." Ling Lan's analysis was so shocking to Xie Yi that he gaped widely.
"Of course this is true. How could he be the devil in your heart? You didn't know of his existence before this, did you? I don't believe that you never made mistakes or felt regret in your childhood. Why did he only appear now?" Devil in the heart? What lie was this? Ling Lan didn't believe in such things at all.
Xie Yi smiled bitterly and then opened his mouth to speak. "The elders say that the negative feelings in us would accumulate and forced the devil in our heart out at a certain point…"
"Good explanation. Do you believe that?" Ling Lan asked indifferently.
Xie Yi pondered over it seriously before replying in a helpless tone. "If you hadn't told me all this, I would have." The elder's explanation was never doubted at all. No one had ever analyzed the explanation carefully. The members of their family all thought that since the elders had plenty of experience, whatever they said had to be right.
Xie Yi looked at Ling Lan with a firm expression. He trusted his boss. "But I think what you say makes more sense." He turned to look at his dark alter ego, who was deep in thought. "What do you think?"
The dark alter ego raised his head to nod at Ling Lan. "I thought about it. What you said should be the truth." He agreed with Ling Lan's analysis.
"Since you two belong together, why not merge together again? There shouldn't be any problem with that," Ling Lan suggested.
"There will still be a main ego. I'm not willing to bow down to him." The dark alter ego raised his objection first. His arrogance did not allow him to bow down to anyone, not even his other self.
Ling Lan smirked. "I didn't say that Xie Yi would be the main ego after the merging." She herself was not sure what would happen after they merged.
The dark alter ego looked at Ling Lan with a puzzled expression. "I looked into Xie Yi's memory and there's a person called Luo Lang. His personality is the main ego while his alter egos listen to him."
Ling Lan replied calmly, "In Luo Lang's case, he awakened his innate talent. Those aren't his alter egos. He uses a summoning technique—Spiritual Possession. Your case is completely different from his."
The dark alter ego was smart and immediately understood. "You mean that since Xie Yi and I belonged as a whole, you're not sure who'll become the main ego after we merge?"
Ling Lan nodded her head. "Yes. This is why I don't know whether it'll work or not. I don't know what will happen after the merging." They might not even be able to have their own thoughts anymore, but this was something Ling Lan would never tell them.
Xie Yi and the dark alter ego fell deep into their thoughts. Ling Lan's method had its risk—no one knew what the outcome would be. It could fail, or it could succeed. They could even end up becoming a completely different person…
