Even Lin Sanjiu herself did not understand why she felt a lump in her throat when she looked at Ji Shanqing.
The choking feeling in his throat became harder and heavier as he approached. It was like a rock, making it hard for him to breathe. It was as if tears were about to burst out of his eyes. Lin Sanjiu sniffled and rubbed her eyes. She lowered her head and stretched out her arm to pull Puppeteer to her side.
"Sis …"
Ji Shanqing called out to her softly, as if he was pleading. He moved closer to Lin Sanjiu and whispered, "You're finally here. I've been waiting for you."
Lin Sanjiu bit her lower lip and did not say anything. She glanced at her grand prize — no, perhaps she should not call him grand prize anymore — and then lowered her eyes.
"Sis?" He panicked a little, but only Lin Sanjiu could see his panic. Ji Shanqing raised his head cautiously. His long eyelashes cast a shadow on his ocean-like eyes. In the reflection of the silver wall, his pupils, which used to be like black lacquer, were glowing with a faint blue hue. "Are you … disappointed in me?"
"Disappointed?" Lin Sanjiu was slightly taken aback.
"I … I never told you the truth, even though —"
"No," Lin Sanjiu interrupted him. "No, I don't care about that. I don't care about that at all. When I found out the truth, I just … just felt sorry for you. "
Ji Shanqing did not seem to expect such an answer. For a moment, he did not know what to say.
"Now is not the time to reminisce about the past," Lin Sanjiu suppressed the complicated feelings in her heart. She glanced at Puppeteer and then at the highest god, who was still trapped not far away. She wanted to make sure that he had not broken out of his cocoon yet. What she saw shocked her. "Oh? The highest god's face was twisted. His beautiful eyes were so wide that they looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets. Even the flesh at the corner of his eyes was protruding out.
"Veda?"
It was hard to describe the expression on his face at that moment. Before today, Lin Sanjiu had never imagined that a human face could display so many intense and complicated emotions at the same time. The "cheerful" mask that the highest god always wore on his face cracked. Excitement, eagerness, fear, helplessness, and anger were all mixed together and poured out from the highest god's face.
Fear.
Lin Sanjiu heaved a sigh of relief when she recognized the "fear" that flashed by.
"Yes, you are. You really are the Veda." The highest god's words were a little incoherent. He could not help but gulp. "What's going on with you guys? What are you talking about? Tell me! "
Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing exchanged glances. The grand prize smiled at her, and the tears in his eyes seemed even clearer. "Leave it to me, Sis. In the past, it was always you who solved our problems. Now, I can help too. "
Before she could open her mouth to ask, he had already walked past her.
Lin Sanjiu looked at his back as he walked towards the highest god. While the highest god was distracted by him, Lin Sanjiu quickly flipped through her deck.
Most people who struggled in the apocalypse would carry some medical supplies with them. Even though Lin Sanjiu had always relied on her body to survive, she still remembered that she had a lot of medical supplies in her deck.
At the same time, Soulsqn had become the most useless and bored person on the scene. She did not know what she was yelling about, but when she realized that no one could hear her, she simply sat down and looked up to observe the situation.
Ji Shanqing remained silent. Only the highest god's shouts kept pouring into Lin Sanjiu's mind. It was as if he could only stabilize his mind by talking nonstop.
"You didn't see this coming, did you?"
The highest god had a half-smile on his face. "You didn't expect me to come up here, did you? Do you still think that you are so high and mighty? Say something! Say something! "
While the highest god was yelling, Lin Sanjiu tore open Puppeteer's black leather shirt and examined his injuries. What the highest god had left behind was not an ordinary wound. No matter how she looked at it, she could not imagine what kind of attack could cause such a spiderweb-like wound. Puppeteer's upper body looked like a cracked piece of land. The pitch-black cracks were getting wider and deeper at a slow but irreversible speed. His skin was like dry white paper. With every crack, the human blood, muscles, and bones under his skin seemed to be devoured by the pitch-black cracks, leaving only a layer of shallow black hole.
To be honest, it was a miracle that Puppeteer was still alive. There was a thin layer of flesh beneath his body, and it had been 'devoured' by Lin Sanjiu.
"What are you doing?" the highest god yelled. Lin Sanjiu immediately turned around to look. It turned out that Ji Shanqing had walked up to the transparent cage and placed a hand on it. He did not say a word. The highest god took two steps back in the narrow cage. His face was flushed, and his voice was harsh. "What are you trying to do?"
While Lin Sanjiu paid attention to the movements on the other end of the line, she scanned through the cards quickly.
Antibiotics, syringes, penicillin, bandages … She realized that she could do nothing but disinfect and bandage the wounds. In the world she came from, the so-called advanced modern medicine was basically waiting for the body to heal itself. However, after he was attacked for the second time, it seemed that the cracks would spread even faster if someone touched his skin, let alone bandage it.
Lin Sanjiu had no idea what condition [The Mountains Remove The Foolish Old Man] did not work this time. Just when Lin Sanjiu was filled with anxiety, Ji Shanqing suddenly spoke. His voice was so light that it was like a breeze that would disappear in the blink of an eye.
"Sis, you don't have to worry about him. He won't be able to get out."
Lin Sanjiu looked up and saw the highest god let out an angry roar as he slammed his body against the transparent cage. She did not know that he also had the expression of a trapped beast.
"This is an item that I've simulated. The duration is only half …"
"I know." Ji Shanqing smiled at her. His jade-like skin suddenly turned slightly red. "Sis, I've become a Veda. Deciphering this Special Item and modifying it is not a difficult task for me. "
The words' Veda 'pressed heavily on Lin Sanjiu's heart. She immediately lowered her gaze.
The highest god was stunned. As if he had just woken up from a dream, the redness on his face faded away.
"Now? You're a Veda now? " As he repeated the sentence, realization dawned on his face. "You … You weren't a Veda before?"
No one paid any attention to him.
"Sis, you don't seem happy to see me." Ji Shanqing lowered his eyes. His eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly being blown by the autumn wind. Perhaps he was indeed a Veda now, but his sad expression when he was rejected was exactly the same as before. "You're the one who said that you want me to become the life form I want to be …"
"Yes, that's what I said."
Lin Sanjiu did not raise her head to look at him. She tried to press down on Puppeteer's uncracked skin to stop the cracks from expanding. She tried twice with the bandage, but to no avail. With frustration and frustration, she sighed. "What I said was, 'become the life form you want to be'. Let me ask you, do you really want to become a Veda? Do you really like this life form? Do you want to be like them in the future? Do you want to treat all life forms as data and manipulate them as you want just because you have the ability to? "
She did not raise her head, so she could not see Ji Shanqing's expression. Seeing that she did not get an answer, Lin Sanjiu squeezed her eyes shut and forced herself to focus on Puppeteer's injuries. While they were talking, the crack on his chest seemed to have widened. Like an open zipper, it revealed the darkness underneath.
Lin Sanjiu sprayed some alcohol into her mouth in vain. She stared blankly at the deep, pitch-black crack. She bit her lips so hard that they turned white. She had no way to treat such an injury. She did not even know what had happened to Puppeteer.
It was as if she did not even know what the grand prize was thinking. She had never felt so powerless before.
Ji Shanqing's soft, long hair swam like a fish in the water. It brushed past her shoulder as he moved.
"Sis," Ji Shanqing's soft voice rang out, sounding a little nasally. This was a place where they could not communicate with each other using their voices, but she could clearly hear his voice. Perhaps, this was the effect of the highest god's' glasses'?
"Did you forget that when you made your wish, you wanted me to keep everything that I could keep?" Ji Shanqing stretched out his hand and wiped Lin Sanjiu's eyes with his pink, moist fingertip. When he pulled his hand back, it was glistening with tears. It was only then that Lin Sanjiu realized that she was tearing up. The grand prize smiled at her, his red lips curling into a smile. "Other than the things that I have, I have also retained my original consciousness and humanity."
Lin Sanjiu looked at him and opened her mouth slightly.
As Ji Shanqing spoke, he placed his other hand on the crack on Puppeteer's chest. With the help of the highest god's' glasses', everything was presented in a way that Lin Sanjiu could understand. Where his finger touched, a small, projectile-like screen popped up. It was like a miniature tracking camera, chasing after the countless black lines in the wound that had been magnified many times, and playing them on the screen at the same time.
When he removed the black threads, Ji Shanqing looked like a surgeon.
"In other words …"
Lin Sanjiu stuttered as she stared at Puppeteer's skin, which had stopped cracking.
"Even though you have become a lifeform of the Veda, on the inside … you are still the grand prize from before?"
Ji Shanqing tilted his head and couldn't help but laugh. His laughter was like a spring flower blooming in the breeze. "There is one thing that is different from before. I don't have the concept of inside or outside anymore, sis."
Lin Sanjiu was taken aback by how comforting those words were. It was as if she had just stepped into a pool of hot water. She felt as if her muscles and bones had loosened up. At the same time, she felt a little sad. Her grand prize would not be able to walk into the next apocalyptic world with her.
The highest god interrupted her train of thought.
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