71 Seriously injured

◎Backflow of spiritual power◎

When they arrived at the station, Yan Xunzhi jumped off the bus and went straight to the laboratory.

Having spent half a year wandering around the South District, she might have a poor sense of direction, but she should still be familiar with the roads. But this time, she was like a headless fly, stumbling upon several forks and turning back.

Fortunately, she didn't lose face in the South District. She met an acquaintance on the way, and Yan Xunzhi grabbed her and said, "Take me to the laboratory!"

The acquaintance was surprised to see her. He opened his mouth to say something, but seeing that she seemed anxious, he pointed the way and said, "This way." Then he asked her on the way, "Why did you come to the South District?"

Yan Xunzhi was vague, "Something's going on."

The acquaintance smacked his lips, then, upon seeing the military emblem on her chest, exclaimed, "You've been promoted! Deputy Second Class, that's a lot! Congratulations!"

Yan Xunzhi forced a smile and said, "I'm lucky. The higher-ups appreciate me."

The acquaintance gave her a look that said, "I understand." Yan Xunzhi's mind was elsewhere, so he ignored her and let her guess.

She recognized the place as she approached. She waved goodbye to her acquaintance, but was stopped at the door again. The sentry followed the rules and regulations. "You can't enter."

"Ning Yue asked me to come."

They exchanged glances, then one of them turned and walked back inside. Ning Yue came out a moment later and stood before her, a little embarrassed. "...Why didn't you contact me in the car?"

Yan Xunzhi immediately understood and laughed angrily, "I forgot."

Then he asked directly, "Can I come in?"

Ning Yue said, "According to the procedure, you can't get in..."

Yan Xunzhi turned and left. Ning Yue sighed and quickly took two steps forward to grab her. "Listen to me! Kong Wei has been implanted and is suffering from ongoing damage. She's a healing type, so her abilities are limited and she can't break it. Xiao Mingran is in her body, so she can break it, but if she comes out, Kong Wei's remaining mental power might be completely invaded again."

"So we need someone to connect with her, to act as a container to temporarily store the spiritual power, and then assist in re-occupying her. But in her current situation, none of us can connect with her."

They tried their best to search for public sentinel directions with similar data based on Kong Wei's matching records, but all failed. Ning Yue and Sang Wanyin around them also took medicine and went into battle, but it was useless.

Only Yan Xunzhi has the highest degree of compatibility with her, and they have had a long-term connection, cooperated with each other, and are familiar with each other.

If anyone could link, she'd be the most likely candidate.

"Don't be so cynical." Yan Xunzhi gritted his teeth. "Now let me ask you, if I can't get in, why did you call me over?"

Ning Yue repeated, "According to the procedure..."

Yan Xunzhi stared at her, and when the flames started to rise, he suddenly realized that Ning Yue had done her best.

She had confessed to her long ago that she and Kong Wei did not have a very deep friendship. The relationship between the supervisor and the supervised at least showed that they had opposite positions in their previous lives. In this case, perhaps even their thoughts were completely different.

She was forced to be tied up after being reborn. She had feelings, so we notified her to come quickly, but it is understandable that she doesn't want to take responsibility. Ning Yue has done her best, and she also has her own way to go.

"Is Sun Yesuo in there?"

Ning Yue nodded, "Yes."

She took a deep breath, letting the anger subside inside her. She checked the military emblem pinned on her chest with her peripheral vision, walked around Ning Yue, and came to the gate sentry, "I want to see Sun Yesuo."

The sentry at the door said, "You are not of sufficient rank."

Yan Xunzhi was stunned for a moment, "Under special circumstances, a deputy second-level officer can assume the privileges of a second-level officer."

The sentry at the door continued, "I know. You are not of high enough rank."

Sun Yesuo is a special-grade officer? She thought for a moment: federal positions are linked to rank, so how could a special-grade officer become Kong Wei's direct superior?

Her body had already moved honestly, and she stooped low and passed between them. Shao Xiangxu tried to stop her, but failed. He turned around and tried to chase her, but he was a little slower and she had already run through the door.

The two of them took two steps and pushed open the door. Yan Xunzhi was already standing in front of Sun Yesuo. Sun Yesuo made a gesture, and they obediently retreated.

Yan Xunzhi looked at her straight in the eyes.

This was the first special officer she had ever met as far as she knew.

They had met before, but had never had any in-depth communication. Her appearance was ordinary, similar to many people she had met in the dungeon, and she hardly left any impression.

Yan Xunzhi only guessed from the moment the sentry at the door told her that she was a special-class officer that Kong Wei's experiment was directly connected to her, and the relationship between the two was probably extraordinary.

Unlike Ning Yue, she will definitely save Kong Wei.

But she gave up the psychological tug-of-war in that split second of staring. Yan Xunzhi said, "Everyone present today can attest that I take full responsibility for the accident. Let me in."

Kong Wei's mental strength had been injured many times, and many people said it was serious, but in the end, nothing happened. She was a healer, and having lived two lives, she always had some means of saving her life.

But she didn't dare to gamble.

She was afraid that while she was weighing her own interests, Kong Wei's life was slipping away like an hourglass.

Sun Yesuo frowned slightly but did not move.

Retracting her gaze, Yan Xunyi turned around and was about to repeat her old trick. But the officer was different from the guard, and she didn't intend to let her in. Sun Yesuo raised his arm to stop her, "You need to be mentally prepared and calm down first. Her mental power is very fragile. Once it overflows..."

Isn't this calm and rational enough? Yan Xunzhi raised his head, anxious and about to refute her, but Sun Yesuo said, "...You are shaking."

Yan Xunzhi stopped.

Then I found that my hands and feet were really numb and cold.

Jing failed to do so, but Leng did it perfectly. She took a deep breath and tried to relax. After all, she wasn't dead yet... Feeling that she had adjusted, she grasped Officer Sun with both hands and looked at her sincerely. "Is this okay?"

“…”

Sun Yesuo pulled his hand back and said to the sentry behind him, "Take her to change clothes."

After changing into her research uniform and entering, the moment Yan Xunzhi saw her, his mind went blank for a moment.

Kong Wei lay on a sterile table, fresh from surgery. The right side of his waist and ribcage was covered in stitches, all newly stitched together with artificial skin and flesh. The area missing was so large that the flesh had to be divided into several groups. From a distance, it looked like a patchwork, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the person lying there was a rag doll.

His lower body was a bloody mess, perhaps he had taken some kind of repair and growth medicine. The bones of his legs were twisted in a strange posture, broken into several sections, bent into a hook shape that was not supposed to be in a human, and the flesh was exposed.

Yan Xunzhi gasped unconsciously.

She clutched her chest, her shirt bunched up in a ball. Even though the ventilation system was on, she felt so stuffy, breathing so hard, she was almost suffocating.

Why isn't she awake at this time? Her abilities are useless.

That's when she needed her to control her emotions the most.

Her legs were weak, and the medical staff next to her was quick to help her.

Yan Xunzhi tried to straighten her expression and used the platform to support herself, but her mind went blank and her hands were weak and unable to support herself. She leaned against it completely, and her ears kept ringing. "She..."

"How did she..." She could hardly hear what she asked, "...how did she come back?"

The Federation will not collect the bodies.

Having seen so many people, I'm used to the Federation abandoning them. If it requires too many resources, saving them is pointless. Kong Wei, who is almost a corpse, was not well-received in the first place, so how could he be picked up and put on the operating table?

Ning Yue, who followed in, said silently, "He crawled back by himself."

His vision blurred for a moment, and Yan Xunzhi blinked hard, trying to clear his vision again.

There were actually many questions, but none of them seemed important. She only picked out the most important one. She suppressed the sob in her throat, the sound thin and a little strange.

"I've never been a medic. How am I supposed to connect with her in her current state?"

The conditions here were limited, so they just found a chair and strapped the instrument to it. Yan Xunzhi lowered his head and saw through his collar that his chest was blood red from being pinched, with a faint purple tint.

She was unconscious, staring silently, thinking slowly, "I didn't know my heart hurt so much." At the time, she only felt the pain, and she didn't know how much force she had put in.

Then I thought, she really understood me, it was a good thing I didn't go to send Yi Rong off...

Data jumped on the display screen. The medical staff walked up to her, frowning. Under Yan Xunzhi's gaze, he hesitated for a long time before saying, "Your mental strength is unstable now..."

"It's okay." Yan Xunzhi said nonsense, "I have a way."

The spirit spread, just like countless connections before, her spiritual picture merged with Kong Wei, becoming one, sharing. Yan Xunzhi was very clear in her heart that she should not have connected.

She had no other options but to worry, anxiously thinking she could do it. She forgot that since she was little, her greatest strength was to fail at the crucial moment.

She couldn't even stop herself from shaking.

She is seeking her own death.

The link was successful, and the people around were even more relieved.

Failure is nothing more than maintaining the status quo, but success means taking a step further, but it also means being one step closer to death if something goes wrong.

Kong Wei's memory was already confused. Some of what Yan Xunzhi received seemed like her past, while some seemed like she was looking at her own past.

She did crawl back.

The new exoskeleton was made of two sections, barely able to maintain the speed of hypothermia, but it was no longer bright and had no auxiliary effect.

His body was nearly torn apart, and even with the emergency bandages tightly bandaged and tied up, he could only lie sideways. His legs were broken into several sections, unable to grow straight, making them twisted and difficult to walk. He moved towards the tower in a strange way, half crawling, half kneeling.

Return to the above ground tower.

She had no other thoughts, but every time she moved forward, she would think over and over again in her mind that she would definitely be able to go back.

Yan Xunzhi felt like she had been watching her climb for a long time, so long that Kong Wei lay on the ground, panting and gasping for breath. There were no traces of frozen soil. When she turned her head to look at the tower in the distance, it seemed so far away, even though she had only taken one or two steps.

"Talk to me."

Yan Xunzhi turned around suddenly, "...what?"

Kong Wei was still lying on the ground, too weak to lift his head. His throat was filled with blood as he rasped, "Whatever, anything is fine..."

The alarm sounded suddenly.

Sun Yesuo rushed over, but didn't dare to move her. His hands hung in the air. "Yan Xunzhi, you are on the verge of a mental breakdown! Get out! Get out!"

Yan Xunzhi didn't react. She gritted her teeth and pulled out her mental power directly from the safety interface.

Yan Xunzhi was pulled too quickly, and he felt a little detached. He slumped in the chair for a while, his heart aching, and he finally regained some feeling of being alive.

Is this how she crawled back from such a long distance?

Was it a sign that she dreamed of her that day? She also asked her to talk to her. What did she say? She was sick.

What if she had asked her to be more careful, or spoken to her more?

Yan Xunzhi bent down and broke down crying uncontrollably.

A successful link means it is feasible, and only she can save Kong Wei.

Yan Xunzhi knew very well that now was not the time for her to release her emotions, but the more he wanted to save her, the more her miserable condition appeared in his mind, and he could not calm down.

Yan Xunzhi thought sadly that after all these years, she was still so out of place and so useless. It was as if she had never stepped out of the greenhouse.

Ning Yue suddenly came over and said, "Don't think about saving her."

Her feelings towards Kong Wei were complicated. Kong Wei's success represented the failure of the position she stood for, but she was reborn as a dog of the enemy, her past blurred after rebirth, and she had lived with her for who knows how many years, snuggling with her. Without Kong Wei, she didn't know what to do now.

"She doesn't love you because you've never seen the whole her. Now, through backflow, you can see the whole her, and then she can let down her guard."

Yan Xunzhi raised his head and choked up, "This is not heavy..."

"This is very important." Ning Yue interrupted her, "You just want to see her memories, understand her, and let her love you."

"It's that simple."