Chapter 40 I Voluntarily Walked into the Trap
Boom!
The thunderous drums roared, and three bolts of lightning transformed into bear claws, slashing down from the sky.
Li Nai suddenly opened her eyes.
It was pitch black to the eye, and a constant ringing in my ears.
After a while, I heard heavy breathing coming from his chest.
The rough, textured feel of the sheets, rubbed between my fingers, gradually dispelled the terrifying dream before me.
His eyes were staring into the darkness, and his back was damp.
I don't know how long I stared at it, my eyes were sore and I blinked, but I didn't dare to close them, afraid that I would enter the bloody nightmare again.
The deep-seated fear seemed to lessen somewhat; she moved her stiff muscles and felt relaxed. Suddenly feeling a bit cold, she pulled the thin blanket off her waist, wrapped it around her shoulders, and rolled over to lie on her side.
My eyelids, heavy with sleep, struggle against the urge to fall asleep.
I was jolted awake from my dozing once again.
He lifted his wet eyelids, stared blankly for a few seconds, and then raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Each time I have a dream, the scene in the dream fades a little more.
We apologize, the machine has suffered severe damage and is currently under repair. Its functions are temporarily unavailable.
[The body has been repaired to 72% completion; 100% complete repair will require another five days.]
Sigh... I have to wait for time to recover again.
She closed her eyes, and after checking her condition, the nightmare no longer resurfaced.
I really need to think about other things to distract myself.
A soft light pierced through my eyelids, and before I could even open my eyes, I heard Dr. Ji's voice.
"Are you awake?"
Dr. Ji's gentle and kind face came into view.
"Dr. Ji." She made a move to get up.
A pair of hands helped support her back.
"Thank you, Dr. Ji."
Ji Fenglan observed her entire body intently.
"Are you feeling particularly uncomfortable inside your body?"
"No."
"Do you ever have a feeling that doesn't belong to you?"
"Hmm?" Li Nai frowned, giving him a strange sidelong glance. "No."
Ji Fenglan rested her index finger on her chin in thought, a smile appearing on her face. "It's simply unbelievable that you could be torn to pieces by them and still be restored to wholeness."
Seeing Li Nai's eyes fall into a state of confusion, her smile vanished instantly, and regret appeared on her beautiful face: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought that up..."
"Huh?" Li Nai came back to her senses and shook her head: "It's nothing. It's just that I was eaten by a bear."
He feigned composure on his face.
Ji Fenglan's amber eyes filled with pity. He held her hand tightly, speechless.
Faced with the self-blame of the base's top administrator, Li Nai felt inexplicably awkward: "It's really nothing. To be honest, when I first woke up, I remembered it very clearly, and I was too scared to close my eyes. But now when I think back to those scenes, they are all blurry, and I don't feel much. It's like I'm watching from outside a screen."
"No post-traumatic stress disorder?" Ji Fenglan pondered, then asked, "Do you remember the scene of each death?"
Li Nai's eyes showed confusion, even a hint of panic: "Every time I died? I've died many times?"
Dr. Ji's expression softened, and she asked gently, "Do you remember the death you experienced when you came here?"
"Here?" Several bloody mouths and a rotting, bluish-gray arm flashed through his mind. He tried to recall other images, but couldn't remember them at all. Except for a dazzling silver arc descending from the sky.
He shook his head and then nodded. "I don't remember the scene clearly, but I know he was bitten to death by zombies. Is Qi Shuihan still alive?"
"They were picked up a couple of days ago."
"They've left?! Did they go to Missy's place?" Li Nai asked in surprise.
When will this mission be completed? Qi Shuihan is probably cursing me right now, for making such a solemn vow to give people freedom.
"Is there anything else you haven't said goodbye to?" Ji Fenglan smiled meaningfully.
She quickly denied it, looking exaggeratedly speechless: "It's good that she left, I have nothing to say to her. The other day when I went to see her, we started arguing after only three sentences."
"Oh? Because you lost the argument, so you ran into the base's danger zone in a fit of anger."
"yes!"
Wait, that's not right.
She blinked, secretly observing Dr. Ji's expression with her eyes.
The other person's face was all smiles, as gentle as a spring breeze.
"That was a complete accident, a complete accident." He quickly changed the subject with a laugh: "How is Lin Jingru? I remember she had a pretty bad back injury."
"He's alright. It's amazing that he survived the danger zone without getting hurt at all."
Of course it's amazing! That's a miraculous medicine that cost 18 points.
He clutched his chest in pain.
It took almost all the zombies in Merck's lab to accumulate 18 points. Fortunately, zombies are as numerous as ants in this world; after killing one batch, two more would appear. Merck was busy researching super zombies and didn't notice anything amiss.
A thought suddenly crossed my mind.
"Is Lin Jingru still here? I'll go check on her." He lifted the blanket.
"Not today. I need to give you a full body check-up and an injection to help you recover quickly."
Li Nai withdrew her foot and pulled the covers over her head. Haste makes waste; she'd see if she could find Lin Jingru tomorrow. She also needed to figure out how to get Lin Jingru to agree to take her to the Missco territory.
As for this matter...
He shook his head.
Let's not tell Dr. Ji.
...
Ji Fenglan glanced at her watch; on the exquisite star-blue dial, the hour and minute hands pointed to 20:36.
As you approach the office, the two glass doors automatically slide open, and the motion-sensor lights turn on inside.
A girl with short, silver-white hair was sitting on the sofa in the living room.
She walked in nonchalantly, brushing past him.
"The reason for the revival." Lin Jingru glanced at her, her eyes indifferent.
"Can I have some water?" She walked to the water dispenser, took out some tea leaves, and put them into two glasses.
She filled the teapot to about seven-tenths full, then turned around and approached Lin Jingru with the tea tray.
"Please have some tea."
A steaming cup of tea landed on the coffee table in front of Lin Jingru's lap.
"Have you been waiting for a long time? You can have the robot notify me."
Lingchun gently blew on the tea leaves floating on the water's surface.
Lin Jingru didn't move, her indifferent gaze leaving the hot tea. "What were the test results?"
The fog on her glasses dissipated, and she calmly examined the other person's ring. The vibrant green emerald was gone, leaving only a bare four-prong setting and a plain band.
"The examination results showed no abnormalities in the human body, except that it can repair itself. It's truly an amazing body."
"What is the reason for its resuscitation?"
Ji Fenglan shook her head. "It's inexplicable. To put it bluntly, some unknown force caused her to regrow. As long as her body isn't reduced to ashes, it can repair and grow on its original basis, eventually achieving resurrection. I also discovered an interesting phenomenon related to her brain."
Jingjing looked at Lin Jingru with bright eyes and found that the other was deep in thought.
Lin Jingru muttered to herself, "If the host can only be bound to one person, the system must be transferred to another person as well."
Ji Fenglan seemed not to hear, leisurely sipping her tea.
Lin Jingru snapped out of her daze and casually answered Ji Fenglan's last question.
"You just said her mind is very interesting? What did you find out?"
"Each time she is revived, in order to help her adapt more quickly, a 'membrane' is placed over her brain during the recovery process to prevent her from developing post-traumatic stress disorder. This membrane isolates her from all sensations at the time of death, which we will call amnesia for now."
"How fragile," Lin Jingru said coldly.
Ji Fenglan smiled without saying a word, and took a sip of tea.
"Do you mind if I stay a few more days?"
"How could that be? There are cold, lifeless robots everywhere here. More people would make the place more lively."
He set down the steaming teacup and revealed a friendly smile.
...
Li Nai opened her eyes groggily and was surprised to see the person she wanted to spend the night with sitting at the foot of the bed.
The simulated morning light inside the room shone on the girl's short, silver-white hair, casting a soft, hazy glow. One hand rested casually on the armrest, two fingers forming a silver ring that shimmered with starlight as it swayed slightly.
"woke up?"
Her voice was cold, but much warmer than her raised eyes.
His gaze, seemingly containing the deep blue of a glacier, met hers.
He withdrew his gaze as if he had been frostbitten.
I never expected that Lin Jingru would take the initiative to come to me.
All that planning she put together for one night has turned into a disaster; skipping the prelude, it's straight to the climax.
A glance at the clock on the bedside table—6:00 AM
His eyes were glazed over for a second.
Hey, why are you here so early? Do you want to see her that much?
He turned over, pulled the blanket up to cover his face, and intended to continue sleeping.
Where is your system located?
In the quiet room, Lin Jingru spoke with exceptional clarity, like jade beads falling to the ground.
The blanket twitched, and Li Nai, who was hiding under the sheet, remained motionless, her eyes wide open, her pupils shifting to the right.
With a muffled sound, something bounced onto the blanket.
"If you don't tell, you'll regret it..."
Li Nai took a deep breath, waited two seconds, then threw back the covers. A metal object clattered to the floor. It sounded like a ring.
I glanced at the ground, but didn't see it.
She sat up and leaned against the headboard, asking, "You took Qi Shuihan away to ask about the system, right?"
Across from her, his eyes remained fixed as he quietly observed her, signaling her to continue.
"You might as well take me instead of her. All the information she knows comes from me. I am the only host."
"Where is the system?" Lin Jingru repeated the question emotionlessly.
"I can tell you, but you have to take me away from here."
His cold, dark eyes scrutinized Li Nai for a few seconds before he suddenly stood up and headed towards the door to leave.
Li Nai stared blankly at the figure, looking bewildered. He wondered if he had been too hasty in stating the terms of the exchange.
Lin Jingru gave a soft hum and turned her head to the side: "I feel more at ease with you staying here."
Having said all that, he walked toward the door.
Huh? Huh? Huh?
Li Nai panicked, her mind racing.
It was clear that the person was about to leave.
"Wait!" He jumped down barefoot and shouted to stop her, "Don't you want Missy to look at you differently?!"
Lin Jingru, please stay.
She pressed her advantage: "I will not only tell you everything about the system, but I can also make the system do things for you."
Lin Jingru remained motionless, seemingly hesitant.
Li Nai's eyes lit up as she secretly celebrated that she had seized the opportunity.
I walked over, intending to invite the other person to sit back down, but I found no one there.
The door opened automatically.
"Hey! Aren't you afraid that Dr. Ji will get the system first?"
Lin Jingru turned around, her cold gaze sweeping past her and around the room.
"It doesn't matter who comes first or last. I'm the company's sole heir. Getting Manager G to follow my orders and voluntarily hand over the system is a piece of cake. But you, would you let the system help her first?"
The last sentence was spoken with emphasis, clearly a warning to her.
Mimi's chubby, pink face flashed by.
Somewhat discouraged, I turned back to the bed, my feet stepping on something cold and hard.
Move your foot away, and you'll see a bare silver ring.
"Sigh~ Why is it so hard to find Missy? Just hang in there."
She twirled the ring around her neck, muttering to herself as she approached the bed, and just as she lifted one leg onto it.
The door behind them slid open.
Rolling around.
Without even thinking, the annoying little robot makes its appearance.
"It's time for the injection, it's time for the injection, the injection is so fast!"
She even acts cute.
She sat on the edge of the bed and obediently stretched out her hand.
The robot projects green light to quickly scan blood vessels. Its nimble three claws open, aim, and a thin needle emerges from its palm—biu—the needle flies in.
"Do I have to get it done every day?"
If it weren't for the injection in one hand, Li Nai would have loved to applaud and exclaim how amazing it was.
He raised his round black eyes, a green light flashed, and he said in a clear voice, "Yes." Then he lowered his eyes.
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