My Endless Life.

Chapter 136 Stay
The evacuation of Rubino City is about to begin, and Li Qi also has his own things to do.

Although saving Emma's life was just a sudden idea of ​​Li Qi's, he did have his own guess that he wanted to experiment with.

This conjecture sounds a bit "cruel" and "inhumane".

That is to transform living organisms into puppets that can be controlled by Li Qi.

The Scorpion of the Red Sand sent a congratulatory message.

Ahem, although this idea is somewhat similar to the red-haired guy who plays with puppets in a certain Naruto, Li Qi does have this idea.

He once tried to transform animals like rabbits or chickens into puppets, but he didn't know what went wrong. The puppets transformed from biological creatures would quickly lose their vitality and become pure puppets made of flesh and blood.

Or maybe this is normal.

No matter what kind of life it is, it will be lost if it loses the vital organs that sustain life.

Puppets made of this kind of flesh and blood are completely useless and are complete waste, so Li Qi has put this idea aside.

until…

Li Qi caught Jinghua.

Although Li Qi didn't want to do anything cruel, after all, he considered himself a human being. He could decisively kill his opponents or enemies, or obtain information from them through torture.

But he really couldn't transform a living person into a puppet that was likely to lose consciousness.

This has nothing to do with good or evil, it is the bottom line of being a human being.

But now Li Qi's emotions are gradually becoming indifferent, and his thirst for knowledge about the 'mystery' is about to overwhelm his humanity.

The arrival of the fog area this time was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The Light Chasing Society can cruelly turn the Mist Explorers in the safe zone into monsters, so Li Qi can naturally turn the Light Chasing Society's members into puppets.

This is not cruel, it is revenge for those Tanwu people who should not have died in the city.

Li Qi knew that this was just a hypocritical excuse.

But sometimes, crossing the bottom line only requires such a hypocritical excuse.

So... Jinghua became the first 'victim' of Li Qi's puppet making.

"You...you...are...back...?"

When Li Qi just returned home, Jinghua, who had been half-puppetized, welcomed Li Qi in a dry and mechanical voice.

Li Qi looked inside the house.

This former senior member of the Light Chasing Society had more than half of his body replaced with special relic materials.

The left hand, right leg, one eye, and half of the shoulder were replaced with brown wood.

But even so, she is still alive.

And the physical strength is even stronger than before.

After all, part of the body has been replaced with materials. Wood and some relic metals that can withstand swords are definitely stronger than human flesh.

The only regret is that after a long period of experiments, Jinghua's sanity collapsed a little and her speech became halting.

It's like I'm gradually losing my humanity.

However, Li Qi, the instigator of all this, did not make any special expression after seeing this scene.

He took off his coat, put it on the hanger, walked to Jinghua, examined her from head to toe, and asked:

"Is there anything uncomfortable in your body?"

"I don't feel anything in my left hand... but I can move it fine..."

Jinghua answered truthfully, then raised her head, with a hint of fear and pleading in her eyes:
"Can...can't you...stop...going on? I...I'll say anything...I'll do anything..."

"I'm sorry, there are still some key issues that I don't understand. You can't rest yet. Once you solve those problems, you will be free."

Li Qi drew the pancake skillfully and patted Jinghua on the head at the same time, as if to comfort her.

He did have some questions that he hadn't figured out, and that was about life and soul.

Although many parts of Jinghua have been modified by Li Qi, he has not touched any part that involves life-threatening danger.

That is the human body's internal organs and brain.

Things like limbs can be connected to the body by constructing something similar to a magic circuit, allowing people to drive new limbs as if they were using their own original limbs.

Jinghua's left hand and right leg are connected to the body in this way and are driven by Jinghua herself.

Otherwise her left hand and right leg would be just for show.

As for the eyes, Li Qi replaced Jinghua's with a prosthetic eye that he made himself with farsightedness.

But unfortunately, Jinghua's eye was still blind, even if Li Qi connected the nerves of the eye to the circuits in the prosthetic eye.

Maybe something went wrong somewhere.

But this aspect is harmless.

Li Qi wants to save the alienated girl Emma, ​​and the most urgent problem he needs to solve is actually the problem of life.

Emma's body has merged with the relic. The alien life erodes Emma's body, causing her body to transform in an irreversible direction.

In order to prevent Emma from becoming an insane monster, Li Qi had to remove all the alienated parts of Emma's body.

Only in this way can Emma's sanity be preserved.

But eighty percent of Emma's body has turned into a monster.

In other words, if you want Emma to retain her "human" consciousness and survive, you need to remove everything except her brain and heart.

But human life is a whole. Although the brain and heart are important, other internal organs are equally important. Lungs, liver, stomach, kidneys... If any part of the human body is lost, it will die completely.

If Li Qi wants to save Emma's life, he needs to find a way to save human life even if these organs are removed.

Currently, Li Qi only has Jinghua as his experimental subject, so he can only conduct experiments on her.

Coincidentally, Li Qi's current magic level... the level of qi, has risen to the level of a second-level magician, and many magic spells can be cast through physical contact.

Including some healing magic.

Perhaps, through these magics and the relic materials brought from the association, we can find a way to preserve Mirror Flower's life.

"So, be patient for a while."

Using silk thread to control Jinghua, Li Qi put on the surgical gloves he made himself, and reached out to her under the other's horrified and desperate eyes.

……

With the retreat plan given by Li Qi, the association's retreat plan finally began, and the residents of the entire Rubino city moved to the safe area in the rear.

Among them, due to the shortage of manpower, the fog explorers who were in training had to join the team to maintain order.

This includes Ronnie and Rumi.

"Ronnie..."

Rumi, who was responsible for maintaining order in the team, found Ronnie during the break.

He looked at the boy who was sitting there without saying a word, with his blond hair much darker, sighed, and handed him the food:

"Eat something. I heard we're going to evacuate overnight, so we still have a lot of work to do."

"Um……"

Ronnie responded calmly, took the bread from Rumi's hand, and ate it in silence.

Rumi sat next to Ronnie, watching the retreating team, and began to chatter:
"This time we're retreating to Green Shade City in the rear. You know Green Shade, right? It's the city we always talked about traveling to. I heard there's a large lake outside that city, and it's a famous tourist destination...

"However, there are more than 100,000 people in Rubino City, and I don't know if Green Shade City can accommodate them... By the way, I saw Li Qi yesterday, and the Mist Exploration Badge on him has changed from the residual fog level to the heavy fog level...

"This should be the youngest Heavy Mist level in history."

Rumi sighed and said a lot in less than a minute. His chattering was almost exactly the same as Ronnie before.

Ronnie, on the other hand, seemed to have become like Rumi, silent and taciturn, just eating bread in silence.

Rumi didn't care and kept talking, as if he didn't care whether Ronnie was listening or not.

After a long while, when the two had finished their dinner, Ronnie finally spoke:

“…I want to stay.”

"I heard that there is...what in Green Shade City? What did you say just now?"

Rumi, who was still talking about Green Shade City, took a while to realize what Ronnie said and asked in surprise:

"You want to stay?!"

Ronnie stuffed the last piece of bread into his mouth, swallowed it quickly, and nodded:
"I want to stay."

"Don't be ridiculous. Rubino will soon be swallowed by the fog area. By then, this place may not become several layers of fog area. You are only at the mist level..."

Rumi frowned.

As the foggy area is about to arrive, the association's top leaders have also announced some information that low-level fog explorers can currently know.

After the fog area covers the safe area, it does not mean that it will become the first-layer fog area just because it is close to the first-layer fog area.

Instead, it will automatically divide the area into fog areas with similar characteristics based on the characteristics of the fog area after it arrives.

In other words, if the city of Rubino is completely covered by the fog zone, based on the characteristics previously shown in the city, the city will be classified as the second layer of fog zone.

It will appear in the colorless plains. Even if the Tanwu family returns to the location of Rubino City along the original route in the future, they will not be in Rubino City, but only in the first level of the Immortal Forest.

This involves the issue of space, which the association did not elaborate on.

But most fog explorers don't need to understand the mystery.

The city of Lubino would soon be classified as a second-tier fog zone, and that was all they needed to know.

However, precisely because the city of Rubino is about to be shrouded by the second-layer fog area, some fog explorers choose to stay here.

They had to determine the next location of Rubino City in the foggy area, plan the route, and determine the danger level of Rubino City, which was about to become a "ruin".

The lowest level of these fog explorers is the residual fog level, and the leader is a fog-level fog explorer.

It is simply impossible for Ronnie to stay here.

"I'll go find a teacher to help me."

Ronnie said calmly.

Rumi was stunned: "Teacher... Why would Li Qi help you?"

"I don't know, but... I will let the teacher help me... even if it costs me anything."

Ronnie held the crystal in front of his chest, his eyes burning with flames of hatred.

Although Ronnie knew almost nothing, he knew one thing clearly.

The arrival of the fog area this time was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

It wasn't the Fog Zone that killed Emma, ​​but another unknown organization!
That organization is the culprit that caused Rubino City to go through all this!

(End of this chapter)