Although he couldn't move his body, Ai Yu could still speak.
"Are you... coming here to take Sera back?"
Raphael raised his eyebrows, a little surprised: "Why do you think so?"
"Codename: Xila. Scientists define it as a non-physical spiritual derivative capable of invading a living being's mental system and altering its DNA. You... should be Xila's kind, right?"
Raphael sat down in mid-air, supporting her chin and raising her eyebrows lazily. "I'm curious, how did you guess that I was here to capture Xila? According to your point of view..." She admired her own delicate hands. "A woman filled with resentment, traveling light years to find a similar person, shouldn't she be more like a resentful woman?"
Even Ai Yu was speechless.
"I didn't expect you, the spiritual derivatives, to have such jumpy thoughts." Ai Yu coughed lightly. "I don't care what you want from me. Anyway, I am of use to you. So, is my value to you enough for me to make a request of you?"
"Tell me about it."
"Is Teacher Li's condition due to being infected by Xila? You are one of Xila's kind. Do you have a way to help me wake Teacher Li up?"
Raphael shook his index finger. "First of all, you are of no use to me. Secondly, why should I tell you?" She sneered, "You think too much."
Ai Yu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Then please, go away."
Raphael glared slightly, opened his mouth, and laughed angrily at Ai Yu's words: "How dare you say that."
Ai Yu snorted softly: "Get lost."
Raphael stood up and snapped her fingers: "Forget it, forget it. I am a good person and don't want to be involved in the sin of killing." She twisted her waist and walked towards a wall and disappeared.
Ai Yu felt her body relax. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Li Yuzhen's hand moving. She was delighted: "Teacher Li?"
Li Yuzhen frowned, then opened his eyes, only to see the bright crystal chandelier overhead. He tilted his head and asked, "Ai Yu?"
Ai Yu held Li Yuzhen's left hand with both of her own and smiled faintly: "Yeah."
Li Yuzhen pulled his hand out, sat up, and pressed his temples: "Why am I here?"
"I rescued you." Ai Yu looked at his empty hands and frowned slightly, but quickly suppressed his emotions. "They used your body for experiments, so I rescued you."
Li Yuzhen weighed the pros and cons in his mind, then asked the most important question at the moment: "Why did you save me?"
He must figure out this problem.
Ai Yu put his hand on his heart. Why, why did the nameplate disappear at this moment?
"Ai Yu?"
"As the old saying goes, a drop of water should be repaid with a spring. Moreover, Teacher Li, you once saved my life. Even if I had to give you my own life in exchange, I couldn't bear to see you get into trouble." Ai Yu's fingers trembled slightly, and his tone was no longer as calm as before. "Teacher Li, perhaps you have saved many people, and I am only one in ten thousand, but I..."
Li Yuzhen interrupted Ai Yu: "How can you be sure it was me? What time and where?"
"I..." Ai Yu took a deep breath. "Eight years ago, at coordinate 444 in District 9, a small village on the border was attacked by a black bear. The Qimen reinforcements arrived late, and the only one who was saved was an eight-year-old girl. Numbered NI001, I gave her my nameplate to comfort her."
Li Yuzhen was puzzled after hearing this. "First, eight years ago, when I was seventeen, although I had already received my Qimen number, I remember clearly that I didn't go to District 9 to carry out any missions that year. Secondly, I never give my nameplate to anyone else. You said NI001 gave it to you. Where's the evidence?"
"The nameplate was inexplicably lost today, but it really exists." Ai Yu clutched the bed sheet with both hands, and said anxiously, "It's true. Sister Hua also knows."
Li Yuzhen stretched out his hand: "Cellphone."
"Give."
Li Yuzhen immediately called and asked Hua Jianzui for confirmation: "Hua'er, is Ai Yu's savior really NI001? Does she have NI001's nameplate?"
Hua Jianzui was startled and cursed, then replied, "That's what she thinks."
Li Yuzhen frowned: "What do you mean?"
Hua Jianzui sighed and said, "This girl is very stubborn. In fact, there is no NI001, and there is no nameplate. It's just a piece of metal. But what she believes is true. For her to live a good life, I just let her go."
Li Yuzhen glanced at Ai Yu and said, "Okay, I understand."
After hanging up the phone, Li Yuzhen sighed softly: "Ai Yu, I wasn't the one who saved you, so you don't have to do anything for me."
Although he didn't know what happened, Li Yuzhen knew that there was a locked-up 000 in Qimen, and Ai Yu must have spent a lot of effort to rescue himself.
The worst-case scenario is that Ai Yu will be expelled from Ji Palace and be wanted nationwide.
"How could it be?" Ai Yu was completely unaware that tears were already streaming down her face. She shook her head in shock, "Impossible. The one who saved me was NI001. I checked Qimen's information, and you are the only NI001 in the world. How could it not be you! You lied to me!"
"Ai Yu, calm down!" Li Yuzhen grabbed Ai Yu's arm.
Ai Yu's chest heaved violently, and she scratched her chest: "How could it not be true? You lied to me. NI001 is you. It was you who saved me. I have the nameplate..."
She broke free from Li Yuzhen's hand and ran out.
As long as we find the nameplate and show it to Li Yuzhen, Li Yuzhen will definitely admit it.
Of course...
Ai Yu ran for a long time but couldn't get out of the corridor. It seemed as if the corridor was stretched to infinity. She collapsed to the ground, unable to stop crying.
Why?
So what's the point of her persisting for so long?
Are you being too sentimental?
She put so much effort into this, what's this?
Are you asking for trouble?
Ai Yu scratched the ground, feeling mentally oppressed, his eyes turned black, and he fainted.
…
When Ai Yu woke up, she was sleeping on the bed in her room. The person sitting beside the bed was not Li Yuzhen, but Qian Cheng.
Noticing that Ai Yu had woken up, Qian Cheng asked worriedly, "Ai Yu, how do you feel?"
Ai Yu only glanced at Qian Cheng, then looked away, staring blankly at the ceiling without saying a word.
Qian Cheng bit his lip. He didn't know what happened to Ai Yu. "Are you hungry? Want to eat something?"
Ai Yu still didn't respond.
Qian Cheng stood up and went to bring the millet porridge outside the door: "Ai Yu, have something to eat. The temperature is just right and the sweetness is what you are used to."
Ai Yu's eyelashes trembled and tears flowed uncontrollably. Qian Cheng quickly put down the bowl of porridge and took a tissue to wipe her tears.
"Ai Yu, what's wrong? Why are you crying? Who bullied you? Tell me, okay? No matter how wronged you are, you can't skip meals. Didn't you promise us to eat well?"
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