Chapter 318 Between Life and Death
The female knight with long golden hair and armed with sharp weapons stood quietly in front of Yu Sheng. In the distance was an endless wilderness of wild grass, and next to them was the campfire that once sheltered the children but had now cooled down and gone out.
But the female knight's eyes did not fall on Yu Sheng - she just stood there quietly, like a statue that had stood here a long time ago, her eyes looking into the distance, but it seemed that she was not focused on any point at all.
After a moment of surprise, Yu Sheng walked over curiously, but the blonde girl didn't react at all to his approach.
"……Hello?"
Yu Sheng tried to greet the other party and stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the other party, but he got no response.
Yu Sheng frowned, carefully observed the other party's condition, and finally found something wrong.
Although the body of this "female knight" looks very real, the outline of her figure is faintly shimmering with a layer of illusory light, as if she does not exist entirely here.
Yu Sheng circled the other person twice and finally confirmed that the person standing in front of him was just some kind of illusion.
But he had a feeling that the other person was more than just a shadow - even though she had no reaction to the outside world and just stood there blankly, he always felt that... this shadow was "alive".
This feeling is very subtle.
Yu Sheng stopped, calmed his mind, and tried to sense the situation inside the spaceship.
The "holy coffin" is still in operation, and the body of the artificial saint is still sleeping in the holy coffin, with no signs of "resurrection".
However, her "soul"... came to this sheltered wasteland.
Yu Sheng pondered subconsciously, trying to analyze the situation in front of him: the artificial saint had come into contact with his blood, and more than once. Although she had been trying to resist the power in the blood, from the result, she had already experienced the complete "blood donation" process like the children in the "fairy tale"; people who have experienced "blood donation" will have their minds protected. Once they encounter a fatal mental attack or pollution, their minds will be "transferred" to this mysterious wasteland. The artificial saint has a human soul. After breaking through the shackles of her mind, it is reasonable for her to enter the sheltered wasteland like "humans"; the artificial saint's mind suffered a huge trauma in the process of breaking through the shackles, and the strong conflict in memory and cognition is likely to trigger the "shelter" effect...
Yu Sheng felt that the situation before him seemed to be explainable. The only thing he couldn't understand was the other party's phantom-like dazed state.
After standing there and thinking for a while, he decided to get an expert number.
“Erin!!”
He shouted in his heart, and after waiting for less than two seconds, he heard the little doll's clamorous response: "Hey, hey, hey, I heard it! What are you doing? You suddenly shouted while you were sleeping...ah, what are you doing in the wilderness?"
As the last words fell, there was a sudden wave in the air, and then Yu Sheng saw an oil painting frame emerging from the air. The little doll was staring in the painting, and seemed a little unhappy for being called out just after falling asleep.
Yu Sheng didn't waste time talking to her. He reached out and grabbed the painting frame and turned it around: "Come and take a look at this."
"Hey, don't be so rude. Can you be gentle with a lady..." Irene started to talk instantly, but just when she was halfway through her talk, she saw the blond armored figure standing opposite her. She was choked on the second half of her sentence, and it took her two seconds to react, "Wait! Who is this? Where did you pick up local specialties again?!"
Yu Sheng's forehead was suddenly filled with black lines: "Do you think such a big living person looks like a local specialty?"
Irene turned around while shaking the picture frame: "Then this is the good girl you kidnapped back home..."
Yu Sheng saw that this guy had no good words to say, so he interrupted directly: "This is the 'C-shaped buckle'."
Irene nearly dropped the frame.
"What?!" The little doll pounced directly on Yu Sheng's face. She even jumped up in the oil painting. "C-shaped buckle? It looks like this?!"
"Didn't I tell you that she was once a human being?" Yu Sheng stretched out his hand and pushed the picture frame aside, pointing at the blonde girl who was still standing not far away. "This is what she looked like before. I found her here not long after I fell asleep, but she didn't respond to the outside world. I called you over to see her condition."
Irene usually looks like she is a bit heartless, but actually she reacts very quickly when she is in an area she is familiar with. She understood the reason why the "C-shaped buckle" appeared in this sheltered wasteland when Yu Sheng was halfway through talking. She turned around and floated in front of the blonde girl: "I see, the symptoms are like the brain is offline, right? Let me take a look."
As she spoke, she circled around the blonde girl twice, then made a serious thoughtful expression in the frame, and then raised her hands——
Dense, black threads like hair began to overflow from the bottom of the frame, like surging mud, like the tentacles of a living creature. They swarmed and squirmed, and under Irene's control, spread beyond the cursed painting, entangled with each other in the air, and coiled towards the body of the blonde girl.
Even though he had seen Irene's abilities many times before, seeing these "threads" spreading out from the cursed oil painting still made Yu Sheng's mouth twitch. He subconsciously frowned and muttered, "I say, can't you adjust the style of your skills? This looks a bit too weird."
Irene turned the picture frame around, and while controlling the silk thread, she squinted at Yu Sheng: "Did I say anything about you when you slapped whoever you caught and made their face bleed?"
Yu Sheng remained silent.
Irene continued to use the silk thread to examine the "phantom" in front of her.
This process did not last long. After just a few minutes, Yu Sheng saw all the silk threads begin to be retracted into the painting frame.
"Have you found out the result?" He immediately stepped forward and asked, "What's her condition?"
"The mind is incomplete, and it's badly torn," Irene wiped her hands in the painting (although she didn't know what to wipe, she probably thought it looked professional), "What's standing here is strictly speaking just a fragment, and there are many other parts... I haven't found them."
Yu Sheng's brows immediately furrowed.
Although he was not an expert in this area, he could tell how serious the situation was just from the few words from the little puppet.
But he still held out some hope: "...Can it be cured?"
Irene's eyes twitched, and she looked at Yu Sheng with some embarrassment: "Your car is broken down, and the windshield is missing. You send it to a repair shop, and they can fix it. But if the windshield is the only thing left, and you send the glass to the repair shop and let them try their best, then my suggestion is to find a psychiatrist. Although the car cannot be repaired, you may still be able to use medical insurance for your illness..."
Yu Sheng: "If you have no solution, just say so. Why are you saying it so..."
As a result, just when he said half of this, he saw a flash of golden light in the corner of his eye.
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The female knight raised the sword in her hand at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye, then she laid the sword flat and slammed it down cleanly. There was a "clang" sound, and the sword blade, which should have been illusory, hit the picture frame solidly. Irene screamed "Oh my God" and was knocked to the ground.
Not to mention Irene, Yu Sheng didn't react either. He was stunned for a moment, and when he looked up again, he found that the female knight had returned to her previous state of standing there in a daze, as if she had not moved at all.
Only Irene, who was still embedded in the earth, could prove that the scene just now was not an illusion.
The next second, Irene emerged from the ground with a "pop" sound. She shook the picture frame to shake off the dirt and jumped up and down in the painting: "Who! Who hit me with the sledgehammer! Who attacked me!"
Yu Sheng was awakened from his shock. With an expression of disbelief, he raised his hand and pointed at the blonde girl standing not far away: "She."
Irene was stunned for a moment, turned the frame to look at it, then turned her head to look at Yu Sheng: "...Are you kidding me?"
"It was really her. She suddenly attacked just now. I saw it clearly," Yu Sheng said sincerely. "She even held back. She didn't even use the blade. She just laid the sword flat and hit me."
“I…she…” Erin stared, turned around and rushed to the blonde girl, circled around to check her twice, but her face still had an expression of “are you kidding me”, “How is this possible! This is impossible…I have checked it all, and look, she is standing there like this again!”
Yu Sheng was actually as confused as Irene, even though he had just seen it with his own eyes he was still confused now. He also came to the girl and tried to talk to her, but just like before, he got no response.
"No, my examination is definitely correct. Her mind is definitely torn apart. At least only a small part of her is standing here," Irene muttered beside Yu Sheng's ear, "But according to what you said, she should have moved just now... Does this mean that she can still think and act? But this doesn't make sense... Wait, could it be related to the part that remains in reality?"
Yu Sheng frowned: "What do you mean?"
"Isn't she still dying in reality?" Irene said casually, "Strictly speaking, she has already died once. She has gone through the process of talking to the dead with you. But because the life form of the 'artificial saint' is too special, and she came into contact with your blood, you gave her life according to the standards of a 'doll'. Could it be because of this? She is neither dead nor alive. Her body is in a state of life and death at the same time, causing her soul and mind to be divided into two halves. One half is here receiving the 'near-death shelter', and the other half that is not dead is actually still in the holy coffin?"
An expression of thought and surprise gradually appeared on Yu Sheng's face, and he stared at the little doll in front of him.
Irene: "Why are you looking at me? I was just saying it casually..."
Yu Sheng was very frank: "I just didn't expect that you would suddenly become smart."
Irene thought for a while and flew into a rage: "Yu Sheng, damn it!"
But Yu Sheng ignored the little doll's subsequent rage - he stretched out a hand and grabbed the floating picture frame, and casually tucked it under his armpit. Then he looked at the blonde girl standing in the wilderness and fell into long thought.
Being in a state of life and death at the same time?
(End of this chapter)
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