Due to Huaishi's insistence, after the medical scholar confirmed that Huaishi had no problem, he finally went through the procedures for discharge from the hospital on the same day. Then I saw my big cousin sitting in the hallway.

"Oh, boy. Zhu Hongchen waved at him: "Happy to mention the third runner-up, congratulations." ”

"That said, but it doesn't really feel like it's really real. Huai Shi smiled bitterly: "Is there something wrong with the eldest cousin?"

Zhu Hongchen thought for a while, "It's nothing, recently I have pushed all my work to the last third sister, paddling and fishing every day, and I am so happy...... But young man, you seem to be going to do something. ”

"Huh?" Huai Shi was puzzled.

But Zhu Hongchen didn't say anything, just got up and patted him on the shoulder: "There are some things that shouldn't be said by me, and I don't have any position to intervene, and I can't help you, so be careful yourself." Do you have any travel plans for the next day, and it's not bad to go to London, Rome, or Petrograd......"

Huai Shi looked confused.

Wait, is someone going to persecute me again?

"Forget it, don't say these disappointing words. Zhu Hongchen waved his hand nonchalantly and changed the subject: "Are you ready to leave?"

Huai Shi nodded, but saw Zhu Hongchen hand over the long bag beside him. The black slender bag exuded the familiar essentia fluctuations of Huai Shi, which made him a little incredulous.

Zhu Hongchen smiled: "Important things should be kept well, don't litter everywhere." ”

Huai Shi hurriedly opened the bag, and then saw that it had been re-maintained, and it still looked the same as the original 'Sword of Virtue'.

After he left, this border relic was left in Yamatai. After the game ended, Yamatai became the border of Dongxia, the third Bianliang City, and he was having a headache how to negotiate with the Social Security Bureau to get this thing back.

Even if it was exchanged or paid any price, as a successor, he could not let the last relic of the previous prince be lost from his hands.

But he didn't expect Zhu Hongchen to return it to him, and he didn't receive a penny.

"Thank you. Huai Shi was pleasantly surprised and carried the sword bag on her back, sincerely grateful.

"You don't have to thank me, it was brought out by Xiaoxian. Zhu Hongchen shrugged: "The child is still in the hospital, won't you go and take a look?"

The joy on Huaishi's face froze: "Something happened to her?"

"There are some problems that will have to be faced sooner or later, but she regrets it. ”

Zhu Hongchen sighed and took out a door card from his pocket: "On the second floor of the basement, just say I let you come, and they will let you in." ”

“......”

Huai Shi took the door card, and had a sense of foreboding.

The second basement floor of the hospital was deeper than he thought.

After entering the basement floor, I changed to a special elevator, and it took a long time to go down before the elevator slowly stopped.

Compared to the crowded hospital above, it was like a more cold and detached research institute, with only a 'Jixia' sign at the door, heavily guarded.

Occasionally, someone passed by in the corridor in the distance, just in a hurry, wearing a white coat and carrying the smell of disinfectant water.

In the empty hall, there was only a pale man behind the front desk, as if he had not seen the sun for a long time, his eyes were strangely large, but the pupils were too small, his vision was erratic, and when he occasionally looked at people, there was a chill that made his heart beat.

Looks like this, let alone any homely smile service, just stiffly stretched out his hand, and after checking the door card in Huaishi's hand, he asked stiffly, "What's the matter?"

"I'm coming to see Luo Xian. ”

After listening, the person at the front desk handed over a notebook, and after Huai Shi signed his name, a person with a mask came out of the corridor, beckoned, and motioned for Huai Shi to go with him.

After several times of disinfection, there was also a special person to check whether there was any essential virus on Huaishi's body, and the listless old man saw Huaishi's inspection report, and his face became as green as a mountain ghost.

After Huai Shi repeatedly promised that he would not mess around, he still put on a positioning bracelet, forcibly took out a layer of chemical protective clothing, and sent someone to follow him, solemnly warning: "If he wants to mess around, Jixia will not guarantee the safety of your life." ”

Huai poems are as good as flowing.

Finally stepped through the door of the hospital room.

Then he saw Luo Xian.

The emaciated figure on the hospital bed, with long hair withered like straw, and pale skin, but the lips were ruddy, slightly upturned, as if smiling.

Immerse yourself in sweet dreams.

Sleeping.

But what made Huai Shi unbelievable was that it was difficult for her to feel her essentia fluctuations, and even the stigma on her body had begun to degenerate.

Degradation and decay are normal for a miracle carrier like Stigmata.

But this is based on the premise that after losing the user and being suspended for hundreds of years, even the original fifth-order stigma will collapse, just like the fragments of the Sun Witch excavated from the abyss by Yingzhou, which have degenerated into the Philosopher's Stone after losing their sacrifices and provisions.

And at this moment, Luo Xian's stigma gives Huai Shi the feeling that this is it.

With the Book of Destiny in her hand, at this moment, under the reflection of the Mirror of Nothingness of Huai Shi, all the conditions were completely unobstructed - she had degraded from the peak of the original third order to the lowest limit of the first order, and there was even the possibility of falling below.

If it weren't for the maintenance of the surrounding equipment, her own soul would have decayed and shattered, and she would have become a vegetative person.

"Pathetic, isn't it?"

The muscular old man next to the hospital bed glanced at him calmly, waved his hand, motioned for the people following him to go out, and said slowly: "From the end of the game, that's it."

Obviously there is nothing wrong with people, but the soul has begun to decay rapidly, and even the stigma cannot be maintained......"

“......”

After Huai Shi was silent for a long time, he sat down in the chair, he wanted to say that even if it was three times weaker, it would be too exaggerated, but in the end, he could only ask in a low voice: "Is it my fault?"

"Don't think of yourself so badly, little ghost, at best you just happen to play a key role...... If it weren't for you, I would have killed her. ”

The old man leaned back in his chair, stared at his daughter quietly, and calmly uttered those terrible words: "She was born with the virtues of me and her mother, with incredible gifts and abyssal nature, but unfortunately she also inherited our defects - while retaining the characteristics of a human and an abyssal creature.

Before that, when the abyss side prevailed, she gradually became like a monster, until she met you, fought that duel with you, and then you saved her again.

For monsters, all of this is insignificant, but it's just a win or a defeat. But for that part of the human being, your kindness is too heavy, Huaishi, too heavy for her to accept. ”

Seeing his daughter's embarrassed appearance now, Luo Lao's expression became unsure of whether to mock or pity: "When the part that is regarded as a human rejects or even denies the side of the monster, her life based on this inheritance will collapse."

She wants to be human, but this side of being human is too thin to support the existence of a soul......"

She ...... Will you die?"

"I don't know. ”

Luo Lao shook his head slowly: "Now her soul is being re-established after the cognitive collapse, as if the whole house has been bulldozed and rebuilt from the ruins, who knows if she will be able to hold on until the day it is completed?"

"Is there no other way?"

Huai Shi asked: "If the Eastern Xia lineage......

"It's her own choice, and what does it have to do with others?"

Luo Lao seemed to be amused by his serious appearance: "Are you making a mistake, Huai Shi, not everyone will fall into the abyss of misfortune after leaving your help.

Why do you have to let everybody live without you? Isn't that her choice? If she wants to live, she can live......"

He glanced deeply at Huai Shi: "Learn to expect from others, boy, the world will always run as usual, whether you are or not." ”

After a long silence, Huai Shi nodded bitterly and got up to say goodbye.

"Don't come here again. Luo Lao kept sending him outside the hospital and said coldly: "Since they have all graduated, don't keep pestering the teacher's daughter, you are very bad." ”

This is already a rare word of relief that can be heard from the old man's mouth, but Huai Shi still has a hard time laughing, waved his hand, and turned to say goodbye.

Hear the last words behind you.

"She said, thank you......"

His footsteps froze, and he looked back, but there was no old man at the door of the hospital.

Should I feel relieved or more self-reproachful?

Huai Shi is not clear.

He carried his bag and wandered the streets of Jinling, wanting to talk to someone like never before, and then saw the man leaning on the car at the end of the long street.

"I'm guessing you'd love to talk to someone right now. The man who smoked dropped the cigarette butt and shook his head at him: "Let's go, I'll take you to drink." ”

Huai Shi was stunned for a long time, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "...... Do you like to jump out and wait for me?"

"It's just a coincidence. Liu Dongli shrugged, "I don't have time to explain, get in the car." ”

"Also, did you know that minors can't drink bars?"

In the car, Liu Dongli rolled his eyes and urged him to get in the car: "Is there anything you haven't done that minors can't do?"

Huai Shi thought about it seriously, felt that he seemed to be very reasonable, and casually threw the backpack into the car and sat in the co-pilot.

"When did you come?"

"Early in the morning. ”

"When are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow. ”

Liu Dongli pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked thoughtlessly: "If your vacation is not over yet, are you interested in going to Shambhala with me?"

......

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At the same time, Ai Qing heard a knock on the door outside the office.

She looked up, and was about to speak, when she heard the door open, and the guest outside walked into the room, leaning on his crutches, and taking every step slowly and carefully.

Careful.

In that case, it is not so much the fear of slipping and falling, but the fear of any omissions and accidents.

Until finally, he sat on the couch in his office and let out a long sigh.

"I'm so tired. ”

The old man sighed softly: "It's been a long time since I've walked such a long way, why is the building here so high, Xiaoqing?"

In silence, Ai Qing took off her glasses and looked at the old man's appearance, with an expressionless face: "The Astronomical Society is a secret organization, and I thought that idlers were forbidden to enter during office hours." ”

"The rules are the rules, but they can't stop an old man from coming to see his great-granddaughter, right?"

The old man laughed nonchalantly, raised his cloudy pupils, looked at this young face that he had not seen for a long time, and then smiled kindly: "If you don't come to see me, I can only come to see you." ”

The master of the Jinling Yin clan is also the actual controller, and the old man who pulled this family back from the brink of ruin, Yin Liangji, said.

"Long time no see, Xiaoqing. ”

"yes, long time no see......"

Ai Qing replied indifferently:

"—'Grandpa'. ”