Chapter 253: The Immortal Witch "Chris wants you to stay with Chris...
Hearing her question, it was the ghost who was stunned.
"This is something you already have. We are just helping you get it back. You don't have to pay anything."
Mr. Ghost paused, then added, "Not everything requires a price. Besides, if you're talking about a price, your future self has already paid the so-called 'price' for your present self."
Has your future self already paid the price for your present self?
Just like she is now paying the price for her past happy life...
But could anything be worse than the life she was leading now?
She really wanted to see the outside world that Mr. Ghost talked about... She vaguely remembered that the colors of her home were warm, and the sky was sometimes azure blue, sometimes dark purple, dotted with stars...
Her dolls also wear colorful and beautiful clothes.
Yes, Chris wants out.
She grabbed the corner of Mr. Ghost's clothes and said, "Please take me out. I, I will work hard to make money, or if you want other rewards, I——"
What answered her was Lin Xi's outstretched palm, on which lay a beautifully wrapped candy.
"Don't overthink it. Just have some chocolate," Lin Xi said. "You signed a contract to sell yourself to me. You have to work for me for the rest of your life."
The outermost layer of chocolate wrapper is transparent and has a rainbow luster; underneath is a layer of golden wrapper with an elegant English trademark printed on it.
Chris had never seen anything like it. Even during her eight happiest years, her parents hadn't had the money to buy such shiny, obviously expensive candy.
But what caught Chris's attention more than the candy was the hand.
The hand that had escaped from its ghostly state had a jade-like luster, its fingers were long and round, and its nails were neatly trimmed. Chris memorized the veins in the palm of the hand with just one glance.
——What beautiful hands.
She was totally out of place in the entire lab she was in.
It's like a piece of art mixed in among a pile of boring scientific instruments. It just exists there, standing out from the crowd with its own beauty.
Seeing that the little girl was staring at her hand, Lin Xi thought she was interested in the chocolate, so she grabbed her hand and stuffed the candy into her hand.
"Eat it. If you like, I have... uh, we can buy more after we get out."
She originally wanted to say that she had more chocolate here if she wanted to eat it, but when the words were on the tip of her tongue, she suddenly remembered that this chocolate was given to her by Vermouth.
I don't know if any stores here sell it.
Chris looked at the candy again and again, then carefully hid it under the pillow: "Thank you, Mr. Ghost."
"No need to thank me for such a small thing." Lin Xi gave the candy given to her by the grown-up Vermouth to the young Vermouth, and felt a little guilty when she heard the thanks.
She wanted to retract her hand and continue reading, but Vermouth grabbed her hand: "Mr. Ghost can turn into a real person? It's amazing."
Mr. Ghost's hands are warm, Chris thought.
She secretly glanced at Lin Xi's face, imagining what this face would look like when it turned into a real human face.
It must be beautiful too.
Lin Xi let her hold her hand with amusement: "Little Chris, aren't you scared? I'm a ghost that can transform into a physical form. I can strangle you to death while you're asleep at night."
"I'm not afraid." Chris held her hand up, looked at it again and again in front of her eyes, and finally tentatively put it on her cheek.
Cool, yet warm—the same touch Chris felt when she had a fever.
Mr. Ghost is not scary at all.
Chris is very brave. The only things she is really afraid of are the researcher holding the injection, the pure white room and the adverse physical reactions that follow.
How could Chris be afraid of the blue ghost and his warm hands?
"Sir." Chris raised her head and looked at Lin Xi lovingly, "Chris wants you to stay with her forever."
"If Mr. Ghost can stay with Chris forever, Chris will pay any price."
Lin Xi didn't take her words seriously and touched her head with his hand: "Little kid. Go out first and talk later."
Then he withdrew his hand and continued reading his book.
Chris tilted her head and looked at her.
She really means it.
Mr. Ghost loves reading, so she wants to make a lot of money in the future and give Mr. Ghost a big house and bookshelves that can hold a lot of books... Mr. Ghost has a good figure, so Chris wants to buy him a lot of beautiful clothes, just like the dolls she liked before.
Also, Mr. Ghost likes to stay in front of the glass, and he once complained that there was no sunlight and no green plants in the underground laboratory, and that the researchers here deserved to get moldy... Then Chris would install large glass windows in the house in the future, large windows that would allow sunlight to fill the entire house, and also plant green plants that Mr. Ghost liked.
Chris would do anything if Mr. Ghost could stay with her.
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"Hey, look here." Researcher C, who was checking the surveillance footage daily, waved and called his companion over.
"What's wrong?" Researcher B came over with coffee.
"Look at Subject Number Three, what's he doing here by himself?" He pointed at the monitor on the computer. "Talking to the air, gesticulating... Could it be that his last fever damaged his brain?"
Researcher B calmly took a sip of his coffee. "Eighty percent likely. Her fever was 40 degrees Celsius and lasted almost a day. She's lucky to be alive. It's normal for her to have some brain problems."
Researcher C frowned. "Should we report this?"
B: "Why are you reporting this? Are you stupid?"
"The project team is almost disbanded, and the remaining test subjects are all going to be sent away. If you report this now, who will want to take care of this mess? The higher-ups have clearly made it clear they don't want to intervene and have already stopped human experiments. Don't bother them with information they don't want to know at this time."
He took another leisurely sip of coffee. "The project team will be disbanded in just a few days. Don't worry about what happens to Number Three. As long as he's alive and well, that's all that matters."
Researcher C thought so too, so he switched to watching the surveillance footage of other experimental subjects.
But after a while, they were called out.
It turned out that Researcher Lin had returned.
She was wearing a fitted beige windbreaker with a white coat on top, and glasses, and looked particularly energetic.
She is closely followed by her student, researcher Morimoto, who is said to be the person in charge of the project team after its reorganization.
She announced the official disbandment of the project team and finally came to the laboratory to take a look at the experimental subjects.
She took a quick glance through the glass and left, not noticing either Chris or the ghost standing next to her.
Lin Xi took a quiet look at her past self, then turned to Chris and said, "Little Chris, I have to go out for a while."
"I'll pick you up when I come back."
Chris subconsciously pulled the corner of Mr. Ghost's clothes, but missed - her fingers went straight through Lin Xi's body.
She lowered her head, her eyelids slightly closed: "Where are you going?"
"To handle some formalities." Lin Xi replied.
The "Silver Bullet" project team was disbanded, and according to the instructions of his past self, these experimental subjects will be properly placed.
Except for Gin who was taken away by her, the other experimental subjects would most likely be sent away or assigned to other departments of the Karasuma family - where exactly depends on what value they demonstrate.
In their eyes, Chris is in poor health and doesn't seem to be very smart either, her only good looks are good. She will most likely be given as a gift to a powerful family related to the Karasuma family.
Before Chris is sent to someone else, Lin Xi has to improve his identity and package himself as a newly powerful person to contact the Wuhuan family so that he can take Chris away openly.
Fortunately, this was not a difficult task for Lin Xi, who had already been to this timeline once and was relatively familiar with the environment here.
But for Chris, the words made her feel very uneasy.
Perhaps it was because the feeling of being rescued from the brink of death was too clear, or perhaps it was because Mr. Ghost's dark blue was too dazzling for Chris, who hated pale and monotonous colors. It was like a fairy tale that suddenly broke into her world. In just a few days, Chris had developed a deep attachment to Lin Xi.
So, when Lin Xi said that she was going to leave for a while, Chris subconsciously thought that the fairy tale had finally come to an end, and the beautiful blue color that Chris liked was finally going to leave its world.
"Can you not leave?" Even though her heart was filled with intense emotions, little Chris spoke softly, only revealing a subtle sense of vulnerability at the end that made people feel sympathy and comfort.
Lin Xi was naturally bewitched as well. She bent down and pinched Chris's cheek. "I'll just be gone for a while, little one. I'll be back soon."
"When I come back, I'll bring you lots of candy, okay?"
After hearing Lin Xi's words, Chris's eyes became even redder.
Just when Lin Xi wanted to continue comforting her, she sniffed, loosened her hand, and nodded sensibly: "I understand. I will wait for you to come back. Mr. Ghost..."
"Hmm?" Lin Xi was touched by the cuteness of the sensible little girl. Thinking that she had something else to say, she lowered her head and listened attentively.
I didn't expect to feel a soft touch on my cheek, but it slipped away as soon as it touched me.
Lin Xi was stunned.
It turned out that Chris came forward and kissed her on the face.
"Be sure to come back soon, Mr. Ghost. Chris doesn't want to be away from you for too long."
"Ahem—I understand. I'll definitely finish my work soon and come pick you up."
Lin Xi stood up quickly, and disappeared through the glass, leaving only the hurried sound lingering in the air.
Chrissy blinked.
Was Mr. Ghost shy just now?
I really want to see his blushing face after he becomes a human.
It must be very vivid and cuter than any doll.
Chris felt a little greedy.
I have already seen such beautiful colors, but I still want to see more.
——But who in this world is not greedy?
It is because of greed that people give up their own things in exchange for what they want.
Chris patted her face and smiled brightly.
Fortunately, she has a good-looking face and can attract Mr. Ghost.
She put herself here in exchange for more attention from Mr. Ghost - isn't this an equal exchange?
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