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"Actually, my current body is a Yuan Energy Warrior. It's only because of the human resonance response that I maintain my previous human appearance. ”

The afterimage blinked and listened carefully to Song Beibei's speech: "And the afterimage is the key person to achieve this reaction. Once he leaves me, I'll turn back into an ontological primordial warrior......"

"Wait, wait," Yuqing interrupted Song Beibei. He pressed down on the air with the palm of one hand, and asked her in a soothing tone, "I'm a little confused—ah, I'm asking, shouldn't the essence of the Yuan Energy Warrior be human?" ”

"It's indeed human," Song Beibei turned her face to look at him, and replied, "But my human body has long since decayed." ”

When she said this, everyone was frightened. Even Wu Xiaoxuan, who was closest to her station, reacted extremely quickly and took a big step back.

"Oh, I...... Probably figured it out. After a long pause, Yuqing responded hesitantly.

"Huh?" At this time, Ren Xiang turned his head vigilantly to glance at the ground, and was surprised to find that a small purple ball on the ground rolled slowly.

But before the ball could roll to the feet of the five of them, it exploded on the ground not far away. There was no sound, no traces of the explosion were left, and it disappeared into thin air, which was magical.

"That, no, Song Beibei...... So that's it...... I see......"

"Comrade Remnant, what do you understand?" Song Beibei turned her head and asked strangely at the afterimage who was just about to speak, but suddenly became stammering.

"My name is Afterimage, not Comrade Afterimage."

"Hmmm......"

The afterimage's attention is probably on what others call him.

As long as someone asks about something, if the nickname added to the question has the words Comrade Afterimage, he will immediately refute the words and start correcting them in a serious manner.

"That, that, that, you, wouldn't it be good for you to just turn back into that Yuan Neng warrior who can freeze?"

"It's not bad to become a Yuan Energy Warrior. But if the hedron energy is depleted, I'll be gone. ”

"What?!"

"Like, like a piece of ice melting in the palm of your hand." Song Beibei replied pitifully and in a suppressed voice.

"Sure enough."

"Huh?" Everyone turned their eyes to Ren Xiang's back.

When the light of the searchlight hit the ground, it suddenly became much darker, and it made Yuqing wonder if it was because his battery was about to run out.

Ren Xiang half-turned.

Song Beibei raised her eyes and looked at him sadly.

"Your situation is very similar to my former comrade-in-arms." Ren Xiang walked forward with heavy steps, in order to find out what was rolling on the ground just now.

Yu Qing couldn't help but say, and immediately dragged Tavol to follow. After Wu Xiaoxuan saw it, he didn't know what was going on, so he followed him in a daze.

"So you knew it from the beginning, Captain." Yuqing looked forward with a straight face, and suddenly noticed a small purple ball rolling from behind a stone obstacle on the ground.

"I really don't know about this, Yuqing." Ren Xiang also noticed that thing - why did you roll another one?

"Eh, what's that on the ground?" Wu Xiaoxuan asked in surprise. He raised Taver alertly, then squinted at the machine.

"In a sense, what if Song Beibei leaves me? Could it be, could it be ......" Afterimage turned his face to her in panic.

At this time, Song Beibei's face could no longer tell how happy it was, and the feeling of rebirth seemed to be announcing the countdown to death again. She lowered her eyes sadly and smiled.

"She's going to die." Ren Xiang, who was at the forefront of the three, could not hide the fact and explained for Song Beibei for the afterimage.

The afterimage's heart was pounding violently, as if he had fallen into an abyss and could not see the light again. He looked at Song Beibei, who was gloomy and sad in front of him, again - how could he, who had been kept in the dark, accept this answer?

"Yes," Song Beibei said very briskly, and repeated to the afterimage unconsciously, "I will die." ”

Ren Xiang made a gesture, so that Yu Qing and Wu Xiaoxuan stopped immediately after seeing each other. Then the three of them watched the small ball roll together, and it exploded with a "snap", and there was still no sound.

"Team, Captain!" The afterimage twisted his face towards the three of them, and he only looked at Ren Xiang's back. It was like a prayer, but it was just a "kneel".

Yu Qing twisted his serious face to Ren Xiang, looked at his frowning face, and asked silently with concern: What will you do?

On the stone wall, there is a creaking and cracking sound of ice, and the atmosphere of the air here is silent. Despite this, there is still a strong and pungent smell of gunpowder in the dark.

"Then do you have any plans, Song Beibei?"

Ren Xiang suddenly turned around and naturally stood up and asked her so.

"What are you going to do?"

"As your plan for helping us dismantle the tower."

"No—I just want to see the world again, nothing else. Don't worry, Captain Ren Xiang. ”

Song Beibei shook her head and sighed. She spoke without a moment's hesitation, very decisive and unwilling.

"No," Ren Xiang hurriedly walked back, he stopped Song Beibei emotionally, and said solemnly: "My suggestion is that after the task is completed, how about you go back to the Tomorrow Heavenly Group with us?" ”

"No need, let's follow your advice and let me sleep forever in history." Song Beibei stood sideways and said implicitly. Her eyes wandered towards the stone wall, and she didn't even look at Ren Xiang again.

The muscles on Ren Xiang's face twitched, and he closed his lips and didn't speak.

Although the timbre doesn't sound the slightest change, it is a clear and vicious irony - straight to Ren Xiang's heart.

"Indeed, as you said: I only belong to the human race in the past, and I should have ...... in that war" Song Beibei hesitantly touched his palm against the cold stone wall, and was silent for a long time.

"Hehe," Ren Xiang laughed kindly, but there was an irreversible domineering hidden in his voice. "Living well is more important than anything else."

"I can't understand the world in ten (nine) years, and I will never be able to adapt to it anymore, it's too late......"

"How impossible! I...... Can't I? The afterimage angrily interrupted Song Beibei's words, and then rushed to her side, stretched out his finger and asked dissatisfiedly.

Song Beibei's fingers half-resting in the air trembled slightly.

"Don't say it," Ren Xiang puffed his nose sternly, then shrugged his shoulders and walked back and said, "Let's go together." ”

[To be continued...]

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