Chapter 12: Departure

And that's not all, the point is that these degraded reactive metals attack other cells indiscriminately.

Hachi rubbed his forehead, he loved cleanliness very much, and he didn't care about dealing with the blood stains on his clothes at the moment.

He was in turmoil.

Can this save her? Can reactive metals that have been degraded re-differentiate their functions? He didn't know the bottom of his heart.

He couldn't retrieve the information about the transformation warehouse, as it was not within the control of the untethered boat.

So, where the hell did 037 get this thing from?

He regretted it very much, if he had taken conservative treatment in the first place, although there was a high chance that Chihiro would have turned into a vegetative state, there was still a chance of a complete cure, even if the probability was too small to be possible.

Perhaps fate was once willing to be on her side.

And this time?

Chihiro, you must get better! He stretched out his hand stained with a few wisps of blood, gently stroked the capsule, and prayed silently.

Chihiro lay in the renovation warehouse for a full month this time. At the same time, the backup energy of the untethered boat is about to run out, and Hachi is forced to turn on the extreme energy-saving state.

Except for some important functions, the rest of the unimportant ones have been temporarily suspended.

However, there will always be a day when the backup energy will run out, and if it cannot be replenished in time, it will be forced to shut down if it is not tethered.

If the untethered boat, which is the pillar of the world, stops working, the balance will be broken, and it will be tantamount to a catastrophe for the surrounding sub-worlds.

Protecting the world around the untethered boat is the mission of the untethered boat.

However, the woman remained unconscious.

The active metal in Chihiro's body has long since stabilized, but she is still unconscious, and even the transformation chamber can't force her to wake up.

Is it unwilling to wake up?

Looking at Chihiro lying quietly on the bed, Hachi's eyebrows were raised.

It's not a way to go on like this, and if you force it to make a move, Chihiro may never wake up. He had to think of a way to wake Chihiro up.

With that in mind, he turned around and went out the door, intending to go to the archives to find some information on the subject.

There might be a way to wake her up.

Before anyone arrived at the archives, Hachi had to turn back because Chihiro had woken up.

The brightness of the room was dimmer than ever, and Chihiro was in a trance for a while, unable to tell where she was.

The fragments that added to her mind kept jumping, and she wasn't sure if it was her past experience.

She didn't want to believe it.

Those who make her miserable......

Her thoughts stopped on the side face of the woman in the last scene, her blurred lips were a piercing red, and the doped gold dust reflected a little golden light, and she clutched the quilt that covered her body tightly.

The joints were white, as if holding all the hatred in the palm of the hand.

I don't know how long she sat like this, but she gradually came back to her senses, and put those messy thoughts aside for the time being.

Is the light bulb broken? She reached out and patted the lamp on the bedside table, trying to capture the highlights.

The lights were still dim, unchanged at all.

Her body trembled, she was a little scared, holding her legs, where did Hachi go?

She lifted the quilt, put on her slippers, got out of bed, and wanted to go outside to find him, she didn't want to be alone.

As soon as he stood up straight, something fell from his body and smashed on the surface of his feet.

It is a bullet-shaped black tube with a golden ring in the middle.

The thing lay silently on the carpet, the edges reflecting the light, shining, as if waiting for her gaze.

She bent down, her tentacles so round and cold that she rubbed for a moment, pinching the ends of the tube and pulling it to the sides.

It turned out to be a bullet lipstick. The golden body of the tube inside is wrapped in a bright red paste, and if you look closely at the light, the red paste seems to be mixed with a little gold leaf, shiny.

A new fragment appears in my mind.

"Husband, is this for me?" The voice of the woman standing in front of the washing machine was delighted, this lipstick she had seen on TV.

Bullet with a black round tube.

"No, a friend bought it for his girlfriend and forgot to take it back when I put it here." The man's voice sounded nervous and embarrassed, and he snatched it up.

The woman was a little regretful and a little envious, looked at the man's back, and touched a piece of paper in the pocket of her clothes, long, perhaps......

She carried the man on her back, pulled out the note, looked at it, and quickly slipped it back in.

A purchase receipt.

Suddenly falling into the memory, she had a splitting headache, her vision was clear for a while and blurred for a while, and the lipstick in her hand was ghosted.

The only clues were put together and reassembled, and suddenly, as if the lipstick in her hand was a piece of red-hot iron, she couldn't help but throw it out.

The slippery paste broke, and half of the paste and the escrow separated, rolling down to the door.

At this time, there was a knock at the door.

"Chihiro, are you awake?"

Hachi waited outside the door for a long time, but Chihiro didn't respond. But he heard the sound of objects falling to the ground.

He thought about it for a moment and opened the door anyway.

The woman squatted on the edge of the bed, her head bowed, her long black hair hanging down, and her face could not be seen.

Hachi bent down to pick up the lipstick on the ground and didn't notice any problems. Reassembled, turned over and looked around, it seems to be a three-no product.

However, there are 5 gold letters faintly printed on the bottom.

T--SH。

The imprints were too faint for the remaining two to be illegible.

There is no such thing on the boat, where did it come out of thin air?

Intrigued, he had a vague answer to the origin of the lipstick, went to the bedside and placed it on the bedside table.

There was no emotion in Chihiro's voice: "Throw it away." ”

Hearing Chihiro's words, he hesitated for a moment, took out a silk handkerchief from his pocket, wrapped it, and carefully carried it into his arms.

She ignored Hachi's strange movements, it was just garbage to her.

As long as she doesn't see it again, even if he keeps it for himself, she won't say anything.

Chihiro stood up and sat on the edge of the bed.

"I turned on the limit energy saving directive, and there is not much energy without tying the boat."

Chihiro's face was still hidden behind a thick clump of long hair, and he couldn't see her expression, and he was a little worried.

As if she hadn't woken up yet, she didn't move, and she didn't answer.

Hachi waited for a while, and asked another thing he was most concerned about: "What did you see in the appraisal room?" ”

Hearing this question, it was as if she was suddenly poured into her body by a huge force, and Chihiro, who was only the height of Hachi's shoulders, got up and slapped him hard.

The strength was so great that her arms were numb, and Xiaoba didn't even have a red palm mark on her face.

She stared at Hachi's slightly surprised eyes and roared, "Get out!" ”

Chihiro's heart aches and she is extremely disappointed in him.

Hachi looked at it for a while, as if he knew this person again, and then bowed respectfully and withdrew.

Gently leading the door, he did not go far, but silently guarded the door.

It wasn't long before he heard Chihiro's low laughter coming from inside the door.

Chihiro seemed to remember something ridiculous, shook her shoulders, and laughed endlessly.

He slipped down and knelt on the carpet, his originally dull gaze changed, and his laughter was mixed with disdain, as if he was laughing at someone who seemed to be a dream.

She couldn't stop laughing, and gradually participated in a bitterness, the laughter became louder and louder, and the corners of her eyes flashed with a little starlight, and she actually laughed out of tears.

The tears grew bigger and bigger, crawling down her cheeks to your chin, and the laughter grew bitterer and bitter until the corners of her mouth could no longer be raised.

A heart-rending cry came from her throat, and she cried out what she had left, and fell to the ground.

Hachi stood at the door and listened silently for a long, long time.

The next day, Chihiro acted like no one was right, and as soon as she opened the door, she asked him for food and drink.

If Hachi hadn't listened to it at the door for a long time, and Chihiro's shiny red eyelids, he would have thought that today's Chihiro was no different from the previous one.

No, after careful observation, he still noticed a difference.

Her mind became heavier.

What's really going on in the laboratory? Why did Chihiro change so much? He wanted to ask, but he didn't dare to ask.

He was a little dazed, not knowing if the next task could be completed by the two of them.

Having eaten and drunk to her heart's content, Chihiro looked at the dimly lit untied boat and frowned.

She rubbed her itchy swollen eyes, thinking of Hachi telling her yesterday that he had turned on the Limit Energy Saving Directive.

"How long is the remaining energy?" She asked.

"Three months."

Chihiro nodded, "That's a long time."

"Three months will pass soon." Hachi disagrees with Chihiro's statement.

She leaned comfortably on the pillow behind her, yawned, and didn't listen.

Huahua quickly cleaned up the dining table on the bed and went out.

"Stone steamed buns are not so easy to find, and even if they are found, they are not so easy to bring back."

Hearing this, she rolled her eyes and asked, "How long does this process usually take?" ”

"About 5 months." Hachi pushed his glasses, calculating in his heart.

"Isn't it!"

Chihiro calculated, if it started from exploration, excavation, transportation, and maybe purification and separation, she and Hachi would not be able to complete it in 5 months......

The most important thing is that she will not ...... anything

It's so tragic......

"You're sure you'll be able to ...... in five months," she couldn't help but confirm.

"It's usually more than 5 months."

"Big brother, what are you kidding? I'm asking about the average, and you told me a minimum? She sat up straight and couldn't help but scream.

"We don't have time." Hachi shook his head and continued, "Even the time given to us is less than three months. ”

If you are abandoned by the untethered boat...... Xiaoba put this sentence in his heart, if that happens, he will have to change his master again.

And all the previous efforts were in vain.

"Okay, then you're ready, let's go now."

She doesn't have to be on crutches now, and it's not interesting to keep her like this.