When Ji Wei saw Jiang Fei at the door, she almost immediately froze, her hand instinctively releasing Lin Ran, a strange panic rising in her heart.
She saw it all?
Lin Ran noticed his reaction, her expression slightly downcast, and she glanced at Jiang Fei again, biting her lip without saying a word.
Jiang Fei remained standing at the door, expressionless, but her face was exceptionally pale. After a long while, she forced a smile and said, "I'm sorry to have disturbed you."
After saying that, he turned to leave.
Ji Wei's fingers twitched slightly.
"Miss Jiang!" Lin Ran's voice suddenly rang out.
Jiang Fei paused, but quickly realized what was happening and was about to leave again when everything went dark and a person appeared in front of her: "Miss Jiang." The calm voice was completely unwavering.
Jiang Fei looked up and saw Lin Jiu standing in front of her.
Lin Jiu was staring at her, her bloodshot eyes wide open. Her left eye, which was lifeless and unable to see anything, seemed to be tinged with a suffocating sadness, tears welling up but she held them back.
He looked up at the ward, and when he saw Lin Ran and Ji Wei clearly, he understood.
At that moment, Lin Ran had already taken a few steps forward: "Miss Jiang, Ji Wei and I have nothing going on..."
"Miss Lin," Jiang Fei interrupted Lin Ran before she could finish speaking. Her voice was still a little hoarse. She rubbed her eyes haphazardly before turning around and looking at Lin Ran. "You don't need to explain anything."
Lin Ran looked at her, but didn't say anything more.
Behind her, Ji Wei kept her eyes fixed on this direction and saw Jiang Fei wiping his eyes.
Did she cry?
Right?
He had never seen her cry.
She was always smiling, encouraging and protecting herself, but now she was crying.
Seemingly noticing his gaze, Jiang Fei turned her head and looked at him.
Ji Wei felt a pang of panic and instinctively wanted to dodge, but the next second...
"This is what you've always wanted, isn't it?" Jiang Fei's extremely soft voice came through the deathly silence of the ward.
Ji Wei stared straight into her eyes, her lips moved, she should have admitted it, but she couldn't say it. After a long while, she finally squeezed out a sentence: "About the prosthetic eye... I misunderstood you."
Jiang Fei's gaze was fixed on his left eye, staring blankly for a long while, somewhat dazed.
Ji Wei felt as if she could stop breathing under such a gaze.
After what seemed like an eternity, Jiang Fei finally came to her senses: "It's alright," she said softly, "Your eyes can see again, that's good..."
She murmured, her voice slightly trembling, "It's fine..."
Ji Wei looked at her and inexplicably blurted out her explanation: "Just now... what you saw... Ranran saved me..."
He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, feeling somewhat apprehensive.
What is he doing? Explain?
He kept striving to climb higher, not only for revenge, but also to regain Jiang Fei and Lin Ran's memories and put everything back in its original place.
Instead of...
Ji Wei looked at Jiang Fei and only then noticed that her eyes were very dim, no longer as bright as before, especially her left eye.
At this moment, Lin Jiu frowned slightly upon hearing Ji Wei's words. He glanced at Jiang Fei, realizing that it was because of him that Lin Ran had been brought to see Ji Wei, which led to Ji Wei and Lin Ran spending time together. Now, listening to Ji Wei's words, did he think that Lin Ran had saved him?
Lin Jiu looked at Jiang Fei, who showed no sign of wanting to explain, only her eyes were red-rimmed. Finally, he couldn't help but step forward: "Mr. Ji, the person who saved you..."
“It’s Miss Lin!” Jiang Fei’s voice suddenly rang out, interrupting Lin Jiu.
Lin Jiu looked at Jiang Fei in confusion, but met Jiang Fei's gaze with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
He paused, and though he didn't know why, he remained silent.
“Ji Wei, you’re right. Miss Lin saved you, so it’s only right that you repay her. Anyway, this is what you’ve always wanted,” she said, looking up at the ward. “Besides, this place is so expensive, how can I afford it…”
Even if she could afford it, she wouldn't pay for someone who was about to lose their value; it wouldn't be worth it.
Jiang Fei sneered inwardly, but her expression remained downcast, her voice grew softer, and she took two steps back.
As Ji Wei watched her retreat, her brows furrowed unconsciously, and she took a half-step forward to follow.
And the favorability rating above his head jumped slightly.
Jiang Fei, as if startled, retreated even faster, then forced a smile: "I'm leaving first." After saying that, she turned around, bypassed Lin Jiu and Lin Ran at the door, and ran straight out without stopping this time.
Hearing the footsteps fade away, Lin Jiu looked up meaningfully at Ji Wei, lingering his gaze on Ji Wei's left eye for a few seconds. He nodded to Lin Ran, then turned and walked in the direction Jiang Fei had disappeared.
Ji Wei remained frozen in place, staring blankly in the direction she had left, her delicate features as pale as fragile porcelain.
Thinking of the look Lin Jiu had just given him, he unconsciously reached out and touched his eyes, where... they were a little sore.
"Ji Wei?" Lin Ran looked at him cautiously, her eyes filled with unfamiliarity and struggle.
Ji Wei abruptly withdrew her gaze, but when she saw Lin Ran, her eyes couldn't help but sting.
He clenched his fists tightly.
That's fine too.
Once you reclaim what belongs to you and replace your memories, everything will return to normal.
It's fine...is it?
Ji Wei's favorability rating: 75.
...
It's raining again in the big city.
Lin Jiu watched the woman walking quietly in the rain not far away, and his pace slowed down unconsciously. In the end, he did not chase after her, but simply followed behind her step by step.
He didn't understand why she had denied saving Ji Wei, not Lin Ran, in front of Ji Wei; why she had given her left eye to Ji Wei, instead of having a perfectly intact prosthetic eye.
Why?
Why... does she always do such complicated and incomprehensible things? She clearly likes Ji Wei. If she just tells Ji Wei what she did for him, whether out of guilt or something else, Ji Wei will definitely keep her by his side. Why should she give her up to someone else?
Ahead, Jiang Fei, who had walked to the corner of the wall, suddenly staggered.
Lin Jiu was startled, and unconsciously took two quick steps forward.
Her left eye has just stopped getting any blood, which will inevitably affect her walking.
But Jiang Fei quickly grabbed onto the exposed steel bars in the corner of the wall and steadied himself.
Lin Jiu stared intently at her. He couldn't see her face clearly, but he could imagine the stubborn look on her face.
She was different from any other human he had ever encountered.
Without making a sound, Lin Jiu continued to follow behind Jiang Fei, the two walking one after the other, about ten meters apart.
After an unknown amount of time, the tin-roofed house came into view.
Lin Jiu watched as Jiang Fei verified his fingerprints and went inside. When he got closer, he noticed several bloody fingerprints on the combination lock of the iron door.
She's bleeding?
Lin Jiu looked up and realized that, perhaps because she had almost fallen, her arm had been cut by a steel bar, leaving a long, bloody gash. The blood was already trickling down to her fingertips.
But she remained expressionless throughout.
"You're injured," Lin Jiu said in a low voice.
Jiang Fei's eyes widened in confusion for a moment. Following his gaze, she looked down, paused when she saw the injury on her arm, and murmured, "Yes, I'm injured..."
Lin Jiu looked at her and, seeing that she didn't move, took the medicine box and walked in front of her to apply the medicine.
Jiang Fei did not refuse and let him treat her wound, but her arm involuntarily flinched when the medicine touched the wound.
Lin Jiu paused in applying the medicine, softened her grip, and looked up at her expression. Seeing that she remained expressionless and silent for a few seconds, she asked the question that had been bothering her: "Why?"
"You were the one who saved Ji Wei, so why are you saying it was someone else?"
"And then let him stay by my side out of pity and guilt?" Jiang Fei asked calmly, then smiled self-deprecatingly. "He likes Miss Lin, so let him like her without worry."
Do you feel at ease liking it?
Should she grant Ji Wei's wish? The price, however, is one of her own eyes!
Lin Jiu glanced at her profile; she was still so stubborn. He couldn't understand how strong one's emotions must be to go this far.
He thought he would never understand.
He paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "It was I who took Lin Ran to see Ji Wei."
After saying those words, my heart, which should have been calm, started to race.
He had promised her he wouldn't tell anyone Ji Wei's whereabouts, but he broke his promise.
Previously, he would have had every part of his body disassembled to ensure his loyalty to humanity.
He wasn't afraid of being dismantled, but he felt humiliated by having every part of his body manipulated by humans like toys.
But no one believed that a robot could have a sense of shame.
Jiang Fei seemed stunned as well. She turned to look at him and then suddenly pulled her arm out of his grasp.
Lin Jiu met her gaze, and her heart skipped a beat.
Will she be like those humans?
He waited a long time, but Jiang Fei did not do anything to hurt him. She just stared at him for a long time before giving a self-deprecating smile: "Do you like Miss Lin too?"
Lin Jiu was stunned.
Does he like Lin Ran?
"I understand." Jiang Fei said calmly, then withdrew her hand and headed towards the cubicle.
"Miss Jiang!" Lin Jiu called her name.
Jiang Fei didn't even turn her head before slamming the cubicle door shut.
Lin Jiu stood there for a long time, gently covering her heart with her hand; there was a sense of oppression here.
However, the dullness was replaced by a series of strong electric currents the next second. The powerful electric shocks twisted every inch of his limbs, and sparks flashed at his joints.
Lin Jiu looked at her almost severed body. After receiving the instruction of the "destination", her body moved outward uncontrollably, her ankles still bent, her posture morbid and bizarre.
Inside the cubicle.
Jiang Fei, who was lazily lying on the bed, raised an eyebrow after hearing the door open: "Who wants to see Lin Jiu?"
[System: Create his headquarters.]
"Why?"
[System: It seems it's because he concealed the fact that Ji Wei regained her sight and met Lin Ran.]
Jiang Fei pondered for a moment: "Then won't he suffer a lot of torment?"
[System: Yes.]
Jiang Fei smiled and said, "That's good."
...
The Gu family's underground research lab.
Several staff members manipulated buttons in their hands, continuously increasing the power.
On the control panel in the center of the research lab, Lin Jiuguang lay naked, his limbs disassembled, his upper and lower body torn apart, his bionic skin damaged by electric shocks, and his mechanical and body parts exposed, even his most private parts.
An electric current kept coursing through his body, and he trembled and convulsed incessantly.
The staff member glanced at Lin Jiu, then remembered Mr. Gu's instructions, and increased the battery level again.
Lin Jiu instantly felt every part of his body shaking, as if it were about to fall apart at any moment.
Yet he remained completely unmoved by any emotional fluctuations.
Half an hour later, a staff member rushed in and whispered something in the ear of the person administering the punishment.
Lin Jiu remained lying motionless on the control panel.
A staff member walked up to him, holding a device in his hand: "This is a newly developed device. The technology is not yet mature, but it can temporarily give the robot the sensation of human pain."
Lin Jiu was puzzled, but he soon understood.
When the blue line connected to his body, an overwhelming pain swept over him from every part of his body.
Is this what humans call "pain"?
The searing pain of a powerful electric current passing through the body, the tearing and shattering pain of limbs being pulled apart, makes one want to go crazy or even die.
Such pain is not the end, but the beginning.
In the time that followed, he was constantly in excruciating pain.
This is the price he paid for betraying humanity.
But he can't die, he can't even faint, and no one will save him.
He could only endure this excruciating pain.
Lin Jiu didn't know how much time had passed; maybe a day, maybe two. The endless pain and electric current tormented him relentlessly.
It's worse than death.
Just then, a series of noisy and hurried footsteps came from outside the door. After a while, they gradually quieted down, and the heavy door was pushed open from the outside.
Lin Jiu turned her head with difficulty and saw a person standing there against the light, like a brave female commander.
Then a clear female voice rang out:
"Let him go."
Lin Jiu favorability: 30.
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