Chapter 240 Is Dad Still Alive? "Brother..." (The rest of the text appears to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated.)
“Brother…” Ruyue’s anxious gaze swept back and forth between Shana and Lillian before she finally managed to squeeze out two words from her throat, which had been silent for a long time.
Shana and Lillian then realized what was happening and quickly looked at As, who was still standing there: "What are you standing there for? Kisaragi is looking for you."
As he came to his senses, his eyes were filled with trepidation, his Adam's apple bobbed, and he licked his lips. His feet felt as if they were being held down by something, so heavy that he couldn't lift them.
"Come here?" Lillian couldn't help but urge again.
Yas glanced down at his feet on the ground, his knuckles white as he gripped his thighs tightly. Then, as if using all his strength, he lifted his right foot and took a step forward, a mere three centimeters.
“You…!” Lillian couldn’t help but want to urge her again, but Shana grabbed her clothes.
Lillian turned to look at her in confusion.
Shana shook her head slightly at her.
Seeing this, Lillian shrugged and stepped aside, holding Sang Zhitao.
Shana also moved to the side and made way for the bedside.
"Brother..." Ruyue called out again.
This time, his pronunciation was much clearer, which made Yas shudder involuntarily.
Yas took a bigger and more determined step with his next stride.
"Brother..." As Ruyue's voice grew clearer, Yass's pace quickened.
"Brother..." Finally, with tears in his eyes, he squatted down by the bed and held Ruyue's hand tightly.
“It’s alright… everything is alright now.” As choked up, “Ruyue, I’ve found the One of All Things, who can heal you.”
As Yass seemed to remember something, he wiped away his tears and turned to look at Sang Zhitao: "I wonder when she will be able to recover?"
Sang Zhitao shook her head: "I have no experience in this treatment and I don't know much about it, but I feel that a few days of rest should be enough."
Yas nodded slightly, tidied Ruyue's hair, stood up, walked solemnly to Sang Zhitao, and bowed deeply.
This action startled Sang Zhitao, and even Lillian, who was holding her, took a step back in fright.
“From this day forward, my life belongs to you,” Yass said, looking at her. “By the oath of my ancestors, I will serve Peach, the One of All Things, to the death!”
"No!" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but persuade, "Life is very important, don't waste your life."
“Yes, Master,” As replied solemnly.
"And don't call me master, it's weird." Sang Zhitao shuddered and quickly refused.
A rare smile appeared on Yas's usually indifferent face: "Okay, Peach."
"So, Peach really has lived for three hundred years?" Lillian suddenly asked, as if she had just thought of something.
Yas glanced at Sang Zhitao, then at Ruyue, before nodding: "They said that only the One of All Things can heal my sister, and the title of One of All Things is only held by the healers of the Divine Child Project three hundred years ago."
"Did no healers really participate in the Divine Child Project over the past three hundred years?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously.
Yas nodded. "Yes, only the first batch."
"Why? Isn't the Divine Child Project meant to cultivate powerful superhumans? Wouldn't rare healers be even more worthy of being cultivated?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously.
A hint of hatred flashed in Yas's eyes: "Because healers are too rare and too prone to emotional breakdowns, they have always been protected by the Spiral Tower."
"Three hundred years ago, the first batch of healers who participated in the Divine Child Project were sent to the experimental base. There were a total of one hundred healers in that batch, but in the end... only ten survived."
As he spoke, Yas looked at Sang Zhitao and said, "Or rather, only eleven survived."
"This loss..." Even the usually gentle Shana couldn't help but exclaim, her eyes showing disgust.
Not to mention Lillian, who frowned and shouted angrily, "Have the people at the Spiral Tower gone mad?!"
"So the reason why the Tower Master and the others have lived so long is because they used..." Shana paused, then quickly took back what she was about to say.
"What method did the tower master use?" Lillian couldn't help but look at Shana. "Why aren't you saying anything?"
Sang Zhitao also looked at her: "Is it the person you were talking about who has lived for four hundred years?"
“A life for a life.” As sighed softly. The once indifferent man seemed to come alive with his sister’s recovery. “I always thought they absorbed the life force of ordinary healers to prolong their own lives. After all, legend has it that the Light Angels can slow down the aging of cells.”
"But I've never understood why, when it's always the angels of light who pay with their lives, some people can't."
“That’s not right!” Sang Zhitao interrupted his explanation. “Since the All-Encompassing Beings were created three hundred years ago because of the Divine Child Project, how could someone who has lived for four hundred years use the All-Encompassing Beings to extend their life prematurely?”
Yas's face stiffened, and he instantly realized what was happening, instinctively looking at Ruyue on the bed.
Shana then turned to look at Kisaragi.
Lillian glanced at As, then at Shana, and as if just realizing what was happening, she quickly looked at Ruyue.
Seeing this, Sang Zhitao also looked at her.
Ruyue lay on the bed, breathing heavily. A bitter smile tugged at the corner of her mouth: "I've said it so many times, and neither my brother nor Sister Shana has ever questioned me. I never expected..."
“Perhaps they didn’t realize it before. The Tower Master you mentioned uses the life of the All-Knowing One. If they had known, they would have noticed long ago.” Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow and replied, then looked at Ruyue with curiosity, “Actually, I’m more curious. You’re just a tiny organization within the Mutual Aid Society. How do you know so many secrets?”
She had wanted to ask this question for a long time. After all, if even Lillian didn't know it, it couldn't be common knowledge in this world, which made it seem even more likely that As and the others had secrets.
Ruyue reached out her hand to Yas, and after Yas helped her up, she said, "There are some things that I only have a vague understanding of."
"The Ones of All Things did not appear during the Divine Child Project, but rather five hundred years ago when emotional abilities emerged."
"She is the world's first and most powerful healer."
"Later, she and her husband created Heart Painting Abode. They believe that both negative and positive emotions are the power of the human mind and can be controlled."
"When the first Spiral Tower Master was about to pass away, it was she who pulled him back from the brink of death."
"Later, we don't know what method the tower master used, but the tower master and several others no longer got sick or died, and this being of all things also disappeared from everyone's sight. Heart Painting Cottage was then managed by her husband..."
"However... later on, only the healers from the Divine Child Project truly possessed the ability to control all things," Ruyue emphasized.
"How do you know so much?" Sang Zhitao still didn't understand.
Ruyue glanced at Yas, then looked down at her own pale, slender hands: "My parents are high-ranking members of the Spiral Tower."
“No wonder.” Sang Zhitao nodded. She didn’t press the matter to ask why the As siblings had fallen from being children in the upper levels of the Spiral Tower to being in the Mutual Aid Society.
She didn't ask, and neither did the As siblings. Lillian, who wanted to ask, was stopped by Shana's gaze.
The room fell silent once again.
"So..." Sang Zhitao rubbed her little hands, "the person in the photo is really my dad?"
Yas nodded: "Since you are the One of All Things, then the person in the photo must indeed be your father."
“But three hundred years have passed, he should…” Lillian pulled Shana away from her mouth and couldn’t help but say.
"Peach should stay with our team. That way she can protect herself. This place is very remote, and most people won't notice it," Shana couldn't help but say with a smile.
"What photo?" Ruyue's voice rang out from the side.
Sang Zhitao took out the photo from her bosom and had Yass hand it over.
Looking at the person in the photo, Ruyue paused for a moment: "This person is still alive."
She pointed her finger at the young man in the photo.
Yass looked at her in surprise: "Are you sure? How do you know?"
Sang Zhitao got off Lillian and ran to the bedside: "Which one?"
Ruyue only showed it to her once more.
"Are you sure?!" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but ask in surprise.
Ruyue nodded and looked at Yas: "Once, when my brother was on a field mission, I was playing in the pipes when a man who looked a lot like this came up to me and asked for directions."
"Where is he now?!" Sang Zhitao grabbed Ruyue's hand anxiously.
Ruyue shook her head. "I don't know."
"After he asked for directions, he went into another pipe, and I never saw him again."
"When did you meet him?" Sang Zhitao asked again after a moment of disappointment.
Ruyue tilted her head and recalled for a moment before saying, "If I remember correctly, it happened in March of last year."
“Last year…” Sang Zhitao’s eyes flashed with surprise, “Then he must still be alive!”
“But the world of pipes is so big, where are you going to find him?” Shana asked, frowning.
"How big is it?" Sang Zhitao looked at Shana with confusion.
Shana sighed: "To put it this way, if the world of pipes were to be expanded, it would be several times larger than the world on the ground."
“No one knows how big the Pipe World is or how many people live in it,” Yass continued, “The Pipe World is divided into three levels, and we are currently on the outermost, topmost level.”
"If he went to the bottom floor, it would be even harder to find him. The bottom floor is the most dangerous place, where many dangerous people are hidden."
“But…” Sang Zhitao hesitated.
She didn't know how to explain to the people in front of her that she could sense that this "father" was the anchor point for him to end this world.
Just like how she feels about those fragments of the world.
Seeing her hesitation, everyone assumed that she was longing for her father.
After exchanging a glance, Shana finally spoke, "How about we set off in three days?"
"What do you mean?" Sang Zhitao looked at her.
“Three days from now, my two colleagues who went on field missions will be back, and I’ll go with you then,” Yas explained.
Sang Zhitao glanced at Ruyue and shook her head: "Ruyue's health is not suitable for long journeys, I'll go by myself."
"It's too dangerous for you to go alone!" As shook his head disapprovingly.
Sang Zhitao continued, "The world of pipes must be in dire need of healers, so I'll pretend to be an angel of mercy. That way, they'll protect me in order to heal me."
“But if you are exposed…” As frowned, his eyes filled with worry.
"Are there many people who know of the existence of the One of All Things?" Sang Zhitao lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before asking.
Before As could speak, Ruyue said, "Not many. It has been two hundred years since the last All-Knowing One made his public debut. People have almost forgotten that such a being ever existed."
“In that case, they can just treat me as a merciful angel or a angel of light with better healing abilities,” Sang Zhitao said.
"No, it's still too dangerous," Yass said, disagreeing.
“And you should also need an encyclopedia, which can provide you with some information. My brother and I will go with you in a few days.” Ruyue nodded, agreeing with her brother’s idea.
“Isn’t it inappropriate to leave Shana and Lillian behind?” Sang Zhitao waved her hands repeatedly.
Shana laughed and said, "It's okay, we can just merge with other teams. It's normal for mutual aid societies to break up and merge."
“But…” Sang Zhitao was about to say something.
Yas interrupted him, saying, "There are still three days left. You can think about it some more."
Sang Zhitao didn't plan to take Yas with her. She felt that she would be safer on her own, and besides, she was still a child, and humans always looked down on children.
Given that As and his companion have such special identities, it wouldn't be a good thing for her to be exposed to everyone.
As for the remaining three days, she would have to carefully consider how to dissuade the brother and sister from their idea...
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