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◎Who is irreplaceable in her story◎

Xiao Mingran's incident caused an uproar among the senior management of the South District.

Xiao Mingran was hibernating and frozen in the South District, but he woke up, counter-invaded and destroyed the mental network and ran away. The person in charge of the South District could not bear this responsibility.

The news was immediately blocked, and entry to the South District was strictly prohibited. Xiao Mingran was currently only a spirit form. Even if he could become independent, he couldn't continue to travel around like a normal person and would definitely need to find someone to rely on.

Screen out those with problems, check them from beginning to end, and go into the small dark room again and again.

Yan Xunzhi felt that he had been with Kong Wei for a long time. Although he didn't gain weight, he had learned her broad-mindedness. Xiao Mingran had given him a headache. After he went back to check his statement, he slept in a daze until the investigation team came to his house.

Kong Wei was not there, the link was disconnected, and there was no trace of Xiao Mingran in her picture.

The investigation team she had just met asked her in a roundabout way what she had been doing and where she had been in the past few days, especially questioning her about the afternoon when she was not in the medical department.

Yan Xunzhi said that staying in the medical department was too boring. She hadn't seen the link guide for a long time, and her mental power hadn't been sorted out for a long time. She went back and asked Kong Wei to sort out her mental power. After sorting it out, she was tired and took a nap.

As for the other details, I was too sleepy to remember them, haha.

They kept rambling on about this and that, but nothing was certain. After a few rounds of back and forth, the investigation team slammed the table, glared at her, and threatened her to answer properly.

It hadn't been long since they had choked the person away. Yan Xunzhi was deeply impressed and realized that the investigation team could only bluff people at first sight. After poking them twice, they found out that they were just paper tigers. He said with drooping eyelids, "I really don't remember."

"If you don't correct your attitude, I'll report it to my superiors. And then no one will have the final say on what to do!"

Yan Xunzhi straightened his chest, sat up straight, and continued to perfunctorily say, "I have a correct attitude and I am telling the truth. If I don't remember, I really don't remember. If I wanted to make up a lie to you, I would have done it long ago, and we wouldn't have to keep going back and forth here."

The investigation team has no other rights except to ask questions, but it is different when applying to higher authorities. Yan Xunzhi is a little worried that her mental strength cannot withstand the equipment.

Kong Wei was quite relaxed. "Their superior is the federal police chief. If they file a complaint, how could the federal government not know that Xiao Mingran has escaped? How dare the Southern District report this to the federal government?"

"But if Xiao Mingran is missing from the South District, the Federation will know about it sooner or later." Yan Xunzhi bit his lip and analyzed, "How can the South District keep not reporting it? If they report it now and conduct a thorough investigation, they will definitely find Xiao Mingran. If they find him, at most it will be a case of poor supervision. Is the penalty any heavier than if he disappears and can't be found?"

Kong Wei smiled and shook his head, "How important do you think Xiao Mingran is?"

Yan Xun was stunned. "If it's not important, why are you afraid of losing it?"

"Xiao Mingran lying there means more than anything else." Kong Wei handed her the nutritional potion. "She's been frozen here for years. It's useless. It just gives the Federation peace of mind. She's missing from the South District, but as long as the Federation doesn't know, she's not lost."

“If it’s not lost, why report it?”

Yan Xunzhi was stunned. After a moment, he raised the bottle and took two gulps. "That... that seems to be true."

Kong Wei happily took her empty bottle. "If this is discovered later, the South District will definitely bear heavy responsibility. It's much more serious than if we reported it now. The question is when will it be? One year, three years, or ten years?"

"Xiao Mingran has long been thoroughly researched. Before the emergence of new technology, she had almost no value. If they can't find her in the South District, they'll forge a new one and freeze it in a few days. No one needs it, and who knows if it's real or fake inside."

Yan Xunzhi clicked his tongue, "You've already taken advantage of this opportunity?"

Kong Wei rarely has any sudden ideas. He must have thought about it a thousand times in his mind before taking her to devour Xiao Mingran.

Kong Wei raised an eyebrow slightly. "The South District... you can see it with the naked eye. The ground faction is dominant. But there's internal strife within the ground faction. There's a group in the Federation that's been eyeing the South District and wants to replace it. The person in charge here is affected by radiation and will die in a few years. This is a good opportunity."

The federation needs an excuse to attack. As long as the South District reports it, regardless of whether Xiao Mingran is finally found or not, the person in charge of the South District will inevitably bear the greatest responsibility and be replaced, and it is unknown how many people will be implicated.

But when she dies...who knows what she thinks about the things that dead people do?

How can the subordinates know what the top person in charge does?

"So, is this something you knew in your previous life, or...?"

She asked hesitantly, but Kong Wei didn't shy away from the question. "In her previous life, she was always in poor health. She only had a few years left."

Yan Xunzhi smacked his lips and thought to himself, Kong Wei’s two lives were not lived in vain.

Yan Xunzhi felt relieved when he knew that there was no way to pursue Xiao Mingran even if his whereabouts were unknown.

She was not good at hiding things, and could only talk nonsense on certain topics without any risk. With Kong Wei's reassurance, she just wanted to go back to sleep.

After a week of confidential investigation, some rumors have been circulating in the South District, but most people don't know that Xiao Mingran is hibernating in the South District, and there are all kinds of speculations.

The South District’s top brass didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, so the investigation team terminated the interrogation.

Everything is back to normal.

The senior guides had the ability to conceal their mental power, which was very different from the investigations they received. Kong Wei was called by the higher-ups to have his mental power searched three times, and those who showed no suspicion were released.

Despite his curiosity, Yan Xunzhi held back and didn't ask Kong Wei whether he had completely devoured Xiao Mingran or hidden him somewhere.

Ever since she learned the secret of her rebirth, she consciously kept her distance from Officer Kong in certain aspects.

She didn't mind being Pu Sui's substitute, or being Kong Wei's tool at the forefront of research and development, but she also completely gave up the fantasy that they would probably never be as close as normal link sentries.

No expectations, no hopes.

Putting all that aside, Kong Wei was simply a perfect noble man. Yan Xunzhi was very grateful.

Unexpectedly, such a conscious sense of propriety actually made the other party uncomfortable.

After the recovery training, Kong Wei took her back to the room and asked with a frown, "What happened to you recently?"

What? Yan Xunzhi felt guilty, but he didn't know why. "I'm fine..."

"What did I do to make you unhappy?" She was so straightforward that there was no room for evasion. "Why have you been so distant to me lately?"

“…”

Yan Xunzhi had a hard time answering. She had always known that she and Kong Wei were not from the same class. Rebirth had only made her realize more clearly that she was just an ordinary sentry with a good-looking face who had accidentally bumped into someone and got lucky.

But she is also a little sentry with a bit of vanity...

If she was destined to fall from the sky, she would rather move the ladder and climb down by herself than wait for Officer Kong to pull her down from the sky one day.

Kong Wei paused for a few seconds, but could actually guess, "If you feel uncomfortable because you think I'm treating you as a substitute, that's my problem. I apologize."

Yan Xunzhi screamed as if he had seen a ghost, and listened to Kong Wei continue, "But I didn't mistake you for Pu Sui. You two just look a bit alike, and she also looks like Sang Wanyin..."

She lowered her head and smiled, "Maybe what I said to Ning Yue was true, I like this type?"

"But you are you, Yan Xunzhi. I don't treat you as anyone else."

Yan Xunzhi sat on the edge of the bed, his fingers digging into the edge, breathing slowly for a few seconds, "...Can we not talk about this?"

She didn't dare look at Kong Wei, her eyes dropped to the ground, "I just feel that our relationship is not that close, you are very reserved with me, and I guess you don't like me to pry too deeply into you..."

Besides, to put it bluntly, she just removed the filter, stopped being Officer Kong's bootlicker, and became a serious experimental subject!

Although being licked does feel very pleasant, there are many lickers waiting in line for such a high-ranking officer, so why does he have to let her do all the attention to him?

Kong Wei squatted down and looked up at her from bottom to top.

Those eyes, when gentle, were like water, stirring up a whirlpool that threatened to drown her. Yan Xunzhi was forced to look at the scar on her eyelid, the hideous, crooked scar tugging at her like a rope.

"Was your scar caused by a foreign object?" She stared blankly for a while, and suddenly asked this question out of the blue.

It's so strange. The scar is crooked and doesn't look like a scratch. It looks more like someone used all their strength to slowly scratch it out.

The underground community has developed a lot of drugs for body recovery. Even her severe burns did not disfigure her. Kong Wei must have the authority to use these drugs.

This scar almost cuts her face in half. Anyone who sees it for the first time will inevitably feel a little scared. Why doesn't she use it at all and not restore the scar at all, or even lighten it?

Kong Wei smiled and touched the bridge of his nose, "Are you talking about this?"

"I rowed this myself."

Yan Xunzhi was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "Why?"

"This is how I died in my previous life." Kong Wei stroked the scar from beginning to end with his fingertips. "After I was reborn, the first thing I did was to scratch this scar on my face."

"I'm afraid I'll forget, I'm afraid I'll live too long, I'm afraid my mental strength will be disordered, and I'm also afraid that the times will change, the butterfly effect, and everything will change, so I will think my previous life was just a dream." She said, "So every time I look in the mirror, I remind myself that my previous life was not a dream, but a prophecy that I can use."

The boiling blood in my body completely cooled down after hearing these words.

The thought that slowly emerged in Yan Xunzhi's mind was that Ning Yue didn't understand her either. She was such a unique and purposeful person.

She herself is the anchor, and everything else is just icing on the cake.

She is not the only one. Ning Yue is not the only one either. Pu Sui, Sang Wanyin... No one is the only one. In Kong Wei's eyes, they are all equal and irreplaceable, but there is no one to replace them for the time being.

Kong Wei moved closer, Yan Xun closed her eyes unconsciously, and her lips covered hers warmly and softly.

Between gasps, Kong Wei asked her, "Are you afraid of this scar?"

Yan Xunzhi shook her head. Kong Wei put the tip of his nose against her cheek, which was cold, and rubbed it gently up and down. "It really doesn't look good. If you don't like it, I'll find some medicine to make it go away."

Like a feather, falling lightly.

Yan Xunzhi's mind was blank, "...Why?"

"Why?" She reacted and smiled, "Oh, you don't like it."

They were too close, and even with his eyes open, everything was blurry. Yan Xunzhi stared blankly ahead, his heart suddenly tightening and aching rapidly.

No, that's not right.

She coughed twice to cover it up and asked her in a joking tone, "Do you know who I am?"

Kong Wei drooped his eyelids, only half opening one eye, and replied lazily, "Yan Xunzhi."

"Is there really no one with the same name as me in my previous life? Every time you call me Yan Xunzhi, I feel that this name is so unfamiliar that sometimes I can't even realize that you are calling me."

Kong Wei, have you really never seen me in your previous life?

If we haven't met, who am I replacing? I weigh more heavily on your heart than anyone else.

You are so similar to her, yet so different from her, that you never make any mistakes and are willing to do it, but even if you are not very sensitive, you can still notice the mismatch in your feelings.

Kong Wei also jokingly replied to her, "Did I call you by your name too little? I'll call you by your name more often in the future. The underground city has only been running for a few years, and with so many characters, there shouldn't be enough time for someone to have the same name as you."

【Author’s words】

Pickled Fish: Sister, it’s too obvious who are you looking at? Who was there in your previous life?