A little blue's consciousness that was about to disappear sensed the approach of Erhes. It replied, barely lifting a vine with its weak body, and patted Ehris on the back, but only once, its vine hung limply and lay beside her.

Erhes looked at the weak vine until it seemed to lose momentum and stopped moving. Then, she looked back at the damaged and pitted tree in front of her, and thought to herself.

Erhes understood the reason why Xiaolan patted her back at the end, it seemed to convey something, however, even if the content was not straightforward, she could guess that the action was actually Xiaolan's own way, saying goodbye to Erhes.

"What a simple and kind tree. You know that there is a part of my heart that has always regarded you as a research body, and I have been looking at you with an insightful eye. Even so, you accepted it and stayed with me until the very end. Should that act be called stupid, or loyalty, but it doesn't matter, because I don't reciprocate what you did to me. You can't get anything ...... from me. ”

Erhes spoke alone to the wood, which was no longer alive, for a moment before she lowered her head. She was thinking, because she couldn't understand the emotions that suddenly appeared at the moment.

She tries to understand, but in the process of thinking, memories of being with Xiaolan keep popping up and disturbing her, and she can't keep her focused.

Why is that happening? Nothing had happened to Erherse in the past when she was concentrating on the answer to the question, especially when she was doing research. Why is this happening? Is that really difficult? In the process of studying Xiaolan, I unconsciously no longer looked at it with the eyes of a researcher. Erhers changed her gaze from the object of her research to her ...... Already a partner's perspective?

Perhaps, right? Perhaps, the moment Erhers called Xiaolan with the word partner in front of others, Xiaolan was not her own research material, but really and sincerely, and Erhers already regarded it as an indispensable partner.

Erhers clearly recognized her opinion of Xiaolan, and stood up. She unconsciously wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, and if she didn't, her vision would have been mired in tears.

Erhes is a mature person who is over forty years old at heart, she is good at keeping calm and rational, looking at things like a researcher at all times, and this is perhaps the first time she has not looked at her subject from a rational point of view...... For Erch, that may be wrong. Because, if you lose your calmness and flexibility in thinking, you are not an objective scholar, and the research report will be unconvincing and full of flaws.

Ehris felt that she was not worthy of being a person who searched for the truth at this moment, because if something called truth appeared in front of her at this moment, she would not be able to gather information and record it well. If the information obtained is not accurate enough, it will violate her expectations of herself and be ashamed of her original intention. Her purpose in probing questions is to give curiosity a satisfying truth, and if she can't do it, she is deceiving her own expectations.