83 Separation

◎Lie to yourself first, then worry about other things◎

Their guess was correct. Although the road back to the underground city had some twists and turns, the underground city was not at all bad, so they escaped back without any hindrance.

The fact that they were able to return to the dungeon just proved that this exploration team - at least this small group - was affected by her.

Yan Xunzhi didn't hesitate. After handing in her equipment, she headed straight for Sun Yesuo's office. She wasn't there, and the guard told her to come back that night. She sat on the guest sofa and glanced at the security camera at the door. "I have something important to report. I'm not going anywhere. I'll just wait here for her to come back."

If you find someone, report it immediately. Sun Yesuo picked out a key point after listening, "There is also a guide? She..."

"I've already warned her," Yan Xunzhi interrupted quickly. "She's a smart person, and she's also a grounded person. She knows what to say and what not to say."

Sun Yesuo glanced up at her, the electronic pen spinning in her fingers, without responding.

Yan Xunzhi felt somewhat powerless. This was all she could do.

To a faction, to the goals they pursued, a guide was insignificant. Yet, her presence risked the purging of a number of individuals. Even if human life was difficult to value, this was easy to calculate.

"That's all, nothing more." She didn't want to stay any longer. "Can I go see Officer Kong?"

Sun Yesuo nodded. "Okay. Tell the one at the door and she'll take you there."

Kong Wei's surgery was over. She was in a coma and was still under observation. She changed her clothes and went in.

She closed her eyes, her face pale, like a dead leaf drifting in late autumn, silently falling to the ground with the wind. Yan Xunzhi looked at her face, and for a moment he felt a sense of quiet strangeness.

Oh, her scar.

Her scars were removed.

If her most notable feature is her beauty, then Kong Wei's most notable feature is also her face, the scar that runs almost across her entire face.

Driven by survival, the underground has extremely advanced medical technology, so even the lower classes don't have many scars on their bodies. However, Kong Wei, with this scar in the most conspicuous place, wanders the underground city in an independent way, ostentatious, wanton, and meaningless.

Maybe she had no other intentions, but in the eyes of others, she was so special...

Now that it was removed, her face was plain and clean. She thought there would be some trace left, but there wasn't.

Her appearance was similar to her previous life, except that she seemed thinner, with more prominent features, but without the fierceness. Yan Xunzhi was also dazed for a moment. It was no wonder that Kong Wei herself was blurry. Even when she had seen her memories, there was a moment when she couldn't tell her apart from her previous life.

She sat by the bed, staring for a long time, until her eyes were dry. Then she blinked, lowered her eyes, and asked herself, "What should I think?"

"I want to tell myself that this isn't my fault. Everyone wants to live, and I want to live too. And my life will definitely be more useful than hers. The one who's wrong is the one who killed me. She died in the civil unrest in the dungeon, not me."

She wanted to laugh, but the corners of her mouth wouldn't move. "But I can't convince myself. My life is life, her life is life, too. I killed her, killed her with my own hands, and her blood is still stuck to my exoskeleton."

She became so useful thanks to Kong Wei, otherwise she would just be an unfortunate ordinary person wandering in the underground city.

The sentry just didn't have her luck. He didn't meet Kong Wei, nor did he have such a good face. Is he destined to die for being with her?

Still observing, I can't stay in there for too long. After Yan Xunzhi came out, he went to the front hall.

The statue in the front hall still stood tall, neither sad nor happy, with great compassion saving all living beings. She suddenly understood why the underworld believed so much in ghosts and gods - she began to believe in them now, too.

Whether you complain or hope, because it cannot be compensated, cannot be realized, and cannot be relieved, relying on the afterlife seems to be able to find relief at this moment.

She stood before the statue with her hands folded.

——I am willing to bear my sins, be born in the next life, and die in the next life.

God, I only hope that my life will be as I wish.

When she woke up, Yan Xunzhi was sitting at the head of the bed. Seeing that she was awake, he poured her a glass of water.

Almost casually asked her, "How did you get rid of the scar?"

Kong Wei's tone was flat. He had just woken up, so speaking was a bit difficult. He spoke slowly, "You don't like it, right? Anyway, we've already made all the references we need to make, so it's time to move on."

Her features were still sharp, her nose prominent, and after the scar repair, a slight hump had appeared. While she should have looked sharp, her almond-shaped eyes completely dominated her face. Her eyes were bright and sharp, and her brows were soft. When she raised her eyes, her whole person softened.

Eyes are actually that important. This was Yan Xunzhi’s first thought.

The second thought was that he didn’t look like Kong Wei at all.

Ever since learning the difference between beauty and ugliness, Little Sentinel Yan had also pondered Kong Wei. Judging solely by her facial features, she was undoubtedly good-looking, but she was also different. The word "good-looking" seemed redundant when applied to her. No one cared about her appearance; her image was so clear.

"...I don't dislike it." Yan Xunzhi said after a while.

She knew what she meant by "dislike." She didn't like being treated as a continuation of her past life, and she told herself so. No, she had moved on.

But could she believe it? She had long since given up on it. She saw it so clearly in her memory, and memory wouldn't lie. The Yan Xunzhi she knew from her previous life was completely different from her.

Kong Wei said, "I'm different too. After so many years, even if I have feelings, the way I express them is different. It's normal."

Yan Xunzhi was choked by her and was speechless. After a long while, he shook his head and said, "It's not the same thing..."

They had both had such intimate moments, but those moments were completely different. Kong Wei frowned, not understanding, "Doesn't this just mean that I'm looking at you two separately?"

Yan Xunzhi was speechless.

"Officer Kong, you..." She couldn't continue, nor did she dare to say anything. You don't know how to love at all.

Kong Wei doesn't understand love, and people believe what he says.

But she did not not understand.

The new recruit called and asked her when she would be back. How could she have run away from the East District without saying a word and left her here alone? How ungrateful! Yan Xunzhi listened to her with a smile, "Oh, I have something to do. It will take another half a year..."

Although she felt that Kong Wei's recovery speed would mean he wouldn't be able to stay for more than half a year, she thought that more time would be better. As time went on, she suddenly remembered the broken chain and asked, "Do you want to..."

"No!" The new recruit took the initiative and interrupted her next words, "I'll wait for you! Do you hear me? I'll wait for you! It's not easy for me to get through this once, don't even think about running away like this!"

Then he paused for half a second, his tone suddenly changed, and he said sullenly, "Come back as soon as you finish your work..."

Before he could finish, Kong Wei's head popped out from the corner of the wall and asked with his mouth, "Are you busy?"

Yan Xun instinctively covered the receiver, "What's wrong?"

"There seems to be something wrong with the medicine." Kong Wei waved his hand, "It's okay, go ahead and do what you need."

Is there something wrong with the medicine? Yan Xunzhi suddenly became nervous. "I'll go ask. You're not fit to walk. Wait for me."

He walked out, ready to hang up on the recruit. The recruit, having overheard the voice on the other end, asked, "Who's that?"

Yan Xunzhi hesitated for a few seconds, "Kong Wei."

The recruit suddenly fell silent. She thought he didn't know, so she explained, "Didn't I tell you I had a guide for that link before..."

"I know." The new recruit interrupted her. "You're so famous, of course I know."

Yan Xun subconsciously felt that this was strange, but before he could think about it, the recruit had already moved on to the next question, "Why did she look for you? It took so long... Is she injured?"

"Yeah. It's pretty serious. I'm the only one who can link with her."

The recruit scoffed, "I've never heard of such a link."

Yan Xunzhi was a little embarrassed. Kong Wei's matter was too complicated for her to explain clearly. She just started to say, "No..."

The medical officer walked past her, and before she could continue, she said, "Never mind. Let's talk about it when I get back. It shouldn't be long. Hang up."

The examination showed that there was no major problem, except that the patient had injected too much medicine, which may have caused drug resistance and the mental effect was not obvious. We need to work harder on counseling.

Upon hearing this tragic news, Officer Yan nearly fainted. "I'm just a sentry, and there's such a huge difference in rank..."

If you want to torture her, just say so!

Kong Wei grabbed her and said, "Whatever she says is the truth? Call Sang Wanyin. She and I have connected before and we are a good match. She can help us."

Yan Xunzhi simply wanted to bow down to her with both hands.

As a result, Sang Wanyin came to test the link, and the matching degree was 40%, which was not as good as Ning Yue.

She slumped in the psychiatric examination chair, staring at the display screen unhappily. "You called me here so early in the morning just for this? Who's a good match for you? I don't even remember ever being a good match for you."

Yan Xunzhi turned to look at Kong Wei, and the moment their eyes met, he remembered.

In order to tie her to his side and match her with a high degree of matching, Kong Wei modified his own spiritual realm. She is now very different from her previous life, so it is naturally impossible for her to connect with Sang Wanyin anymore.

She felt bitterness on the bottom of her tongue and an inexplicable sourness in her chest.

Sang Wanyin couldn't connect, but Kong Wei's injuries needed to be sorted out. Yan Xunzhi wanted to learn, but mental sorting was a delicate task. She could practice it in combat, but this one was a real headache.

Finally, under the pretext of being mentally injured after a mental collision, he waved his flag all the way to Ning Yue for help, "You go and help her resolve it!"

Ning Yue laughed, "You think I can? Then you really think too highly of me. It has always been Kong Wei who combed my hair for me."

Yan Xunzhi said angrily, "Then you can find someone! You've been in the South District for so long, you must have more connections than me!"

Ning Yue asked curiously, "Why don't you go find Sun Yesuo? It's not much easier for her to mobilize people than it is for me."

Because I don't want to see her... Yan Xunzhi couldn't possibly say such an embarrassing reason. After brainstorming for a long time, he finally came up with a suitable reason, "Officer Sun is not an officer from the South District! What can she transfer?"

"Huh, she's not?" Ning Yue finally realized, "Then why did she stay in the South District for so long?"

Despite her memory problems, Ning Yueren was quite reliable and sociable, and she quickly found several guides. One of them had a score of over 70% and was useful, so Kong Wei kept her.

However, the other party's background is a bit complicated. He has been traveling around in various districts and has a lot of experiences that he can list out.

Yan Xunzhi was worried, so every time she went to counseling, she would move a small chair and sit next to him. She used this as an excuse to convince herself that she was afraid that someone would take advantage of Kong Wei's weakness to harm him, not that she deliberately didn't want to go back to the East District.

After all, the application procedure for temporary transfer is so complicated... She finally stayed in the South District with peace of mind.

But the healing system recovered too quickly. In just over a week, Kong Wei's indicators had stabilized.

She was supposed to stay under observation for a few more days, but when Yan Xunzhi went there as usual in the afternoon, she heard that there was a problem within the ground faction, so she was discharged early.

【Author’s words】

Sang Wanyin: Bah! Excuses! All excuses!!

The May Day broadcast is over! I really got a lot of exposure by being on the list. Thank you to everyone who collected and read it~