Cyrus would never have thought that the day before he returned to the assassination plot, Lin Sanjiu had also managed to get in touch with her friend whom she had lost contact with. After all, the possibility of her reuniting with Yu Yuan was much higher than the possibility of them meeting again. Both of them were in the same world, and Lin Sanjiu was still persistently sending out search messages.
Logically speaking, it was only a matter of time before Yu Yuan and the grand prize found her again.
However, Lin Sanjiu couldn't take it for granted. Right now, her heart was filled with joy, gratitude, and fear. Standing on the sidewalk about ten meters away from the rental agency, Lin Sanjiu gripped the personal terminal of "Beacon Fire" tightly. The sweat on her palms made the white box slippery.
When she found out that Yu Yuan had finally contacted the Eight-Headed Druid, her surprise only lasted for a short moment before it was drowned by a wave of relief. "That's great. Fortunately, this time, the separation between them only lasted about ten days. It wasn't like "God knows when we'll meet again".
For a moment, Lin Sanjiu even forgot what she was supposed to do. She was waiting wholeheartedly for the moment when the white box would ring again. She was waiting for the moment she could hear their voices again. "How's the grand prize? Has he recovered? How did Yu Yuan land safely from such a high altitude? Are they okay? "
Even though Bee Sting didn't know who Yu Yuan and the grand prize were, she could tell from Lin Sanjiu's expression that they were important. She leaned against the railing obediently and waited with Lin Sanjiu. After standing by the roadside like a homeless person for a long time, Lin Sanjiu was the first to feel embarrassed. She brought Bee Sting to a roadside teahouse for passersby.
"Look at these expensive tea leaves," Bee Sting said while looking at the price list, "It is said that the 'soul' of the tea leaves will appear after drinking it. It can provide a series of benefits to the consumer … Huh? Have you drunk it before? "
Not only had she drunk it before, but she didn't want to drink it again. Lin Sanjiu could still remember the few round tea leaves that joked with her, grumbled, and rolled around. After they disappeared, no matter how much tea she drank, the round tea leaves that appeared would no longer be the same.
When the frozen oolong and hot milk tea were placed on the table in front of her, Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt the white box vibrate in her palm.
No words could describe her heartbeat. She opened the white box as fast as she could and heard a message from the Eight-Headed Druid. "Yu Yuan said that you should have a special communicator with a person named Ji Shanqing, right? He needs you to open that. "
Lin Sanjiu took out her communicator in a fluster and almost dropped it. Ever since she pushed the two of them off the spaceship, she lost count of how many times she had tried to use this special communicator. However, it was as if it had turned into a stone, and there was no response. Now that he could use it again, did it mean that the grand prize was fine?
She forced herself not to think about the shadow in the corner of the room. If the grand prize was fine, why was Yu Yuan the one who contacted her?
What if Yu Yuan, as the Veda, did not think that it was his duty to save the grand prize, so he did not save him at all?
Lin Sanjiu pushed the thought back to the depths of her mind.
Five minutes later, when she finally saw Yu Yuan's face again after so many days, the same thought emerged from the depths of her mind. She could no longer ignore it. Yu Yuan had made some changes to the communicator, but he could now display the conversation between the two of them. Other than looking a little tired, the Veda did not look much different from when they first met.
However, there was no Ji Shanqing in the video.
Lin Sanjiu leaned forward, and the noise of the people in the teahouse disappeared in an instant, replaced by the buzzing of bees.
"Yu Yuan … Where's the grand prize?" she asked in a trembling voice.
The Veda's face did not change at all. It was as flat as the gray wall behind him. "Have you recovered from the pocket dimension?" he asked as he looked at Lin Sanjiu.
"Y-yes," Lin Sanjiu answered reluctantly. She thought back to the days when her face had changed beyond recognition. She pointed at Wasp beside her and said, "Thanks to her, I recovered."
Yu Yuan's gaze shifted to Wasp before returning to Lin Sanjiu expressionlessly. He did not seem surprised at all. It had only been a while since they last saw each other, and now there was another person beside her.
"Where's the grand prize? Where did he go? "she asked anxiously.
"I have bad news for you." Yu Yuan did not feel the need to mince his words, so he went straight to the point. "You won't be able to see Ji Shanqing anymore."
Her vision darkened for a moment.
If Lin Sanjiu did not know that the "Ji Shanqing" she saw here was just a small part of him, and the real Ji Shanqing was still floating in a dark corner of the universe, she would not know how she would react.
"What … What do you mean? What happened to him? Didn't you — "
Yu Yuan interrupted her. "When you pushed me down, I was holding onto the projection that trapped Ji Shanqing. I had no reason to let go of him, so I didn't let go."
"So, he really saved the grand prize?"
"Then, where is he?" Lin Sanjiu knew that she should give him a chance to finish what he wanted to say, but the anxiety and fear that gnawed at her was too much for her to bear. If she didn't say or do something, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to take it anymore.
Yu Yuan thought for a moment. Then, he suddenly bent down and disappeared from the screen for a few seconds. When he reappeared, Wasp, who had been watching the screen out of curiosity, couldn't help but let out a scream. The other customers who were resting in the teahouse turned to look at this corner.
Lin Sanjiu quickly waved her hand and used her Higher Consciousness to close the curtain next to her seat. She stared at the naked, hairless, sexless, and featureless human body on the screen. She fidgeted and asked, "What … What is this? What happened? "
"You know that the Ji Shanqing who has always been with you is just a part of his energy and consciousness." Yu Yuan held the flesh-colored human body in one hand. Its head hung limply on his chest like a broken doll during childbirth. "When the two of you were traveling together, he was often in a state of low energy. I think the reason why he could last longer than expected is because of his obsession. If this small part of his consciousness returns to his main body, it means that the time he spent with you will be cut short. "
Lin Sanjiu could not say a word.
"I won't say much about your behavior that day. You know it very well." Even though the Veda was emotionless, Lin Sanjiu still suspected that she saw a hint of reproach on Yu Yuan's face. "After you pushed me off the spaceship and I found a way to land safely, I quickly prepared to release Ji Shanqing from that item. However, I soon realized that it was not possible. "
"Why?"
"He had been trying his best to maintain his body. After the impact, he completely …" Yu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Dissipated."
"Dissipated?"
"At that time, he completely dissipated and became a mass of data in its most basic form." Yu Yuan seemed to find it difficult to explain. "Because he had lost his consciousness and energy, he was just a mass of floating data. He could not reassemble himself, nor could he operate. He was nobody."
Lin Sanjiu's body was trembling slightly. Bee Needle looked at her with a worried expression.
"In the first week after we were separated, I had been trying to find a way to 'untangle' this mass of data from the item so that it could be safely moved out without damaging the data." Yu Yuan continued, "After I took it out, I examined it carefully and found that Ji Shanqing's data did not only contain his own information, but also a man named Han Suiping and a woman named Nüyue. Am I right?"
Lin Sanjiu nodded mechanically.
"If it was just Ji Shanqing's data, I could just leave it alone and let it scatter. His main body would not be affected much. However, the data of those two people would be gone forever. " Yu Yuan waved the human body in his hand and said, "So, I made a temporary container and stuffed all the data into it. You won't be able to see Ji Shanqing, but the data of him and the other two people are stored in this human body. "
(End of this chapter)
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