Chapter 54: Chapter 54 Bai Yan No Longer Hides

"It hurt... a lot." Xiao Jinsheng sobbed.

Even though her fragmented memories weren’t fully recalled,

the image of Li’s body covered in gaping, bloody wounds cut through her heart with a gnawing pain.

Facing Xiao Jinsheng’s tear-filled eyes, Li gently removed her hand from his mask and reassured her, "It doesn’t hurt anymore."

Li’s comforting words only made the ache in Xiao Jinsheng’s chest intensify.

Even with incomplete memories, in those fifteen days of fleeing, what she remembered struck her deeply—

Li’s body, completely devoid of unbroken skin, covered in claw marks, yet he still protected her diligently.

All she had were some dirt stains and exhaustion, not a single injury.

"I’m sorry..." Xiao Jinsheng choked out, voice trembling.

She thought, if only she had the ability to fight, Li wouldn’t have suffered such grievous wounds.

"I’m sorry." Li, filled with regret and lingering fear, spoke up.

Their apologies overlapped in unison, both freezing at the other’s words.

Li spoke in a remorseful tone, "I shouldn’t have left without waiting for you. If I had waited outside the shelter for a few more days, maybe... maybe they wouldn’t have tampered with your memories."

"I—" Xiao Jinsheng closed her eyes and raised a hand to rub her temples as fractured glimpses of memory flashed through her mind again.

"Jinsheng, wake up." A woman’s voice sounded softly in her ear.

Shao Jinsheng struggled to open her eyes and saw Bai Yan’s smiling face.

"Sister Bai?" Xiao Jinsheng asked in confusion.

Bai Yan raised a hand, waving it in front of Jinsheng’s eyes, before glancing at the incoming notification from the Star Map, sent by the shelter’s robot guardians.

Jinsheng’s hand, Bai Yan whispered a reminder, "Jinsheng, don’t forget, fifteen days ago you returned to the terminal shelter ten minutes before me. Later, you

Jinsheng’s gaze toward Bai Yan immediately

shelter gates, even when closed, routinely verify whether

she was still outside, the gates had shut ahead of

should only act this way if the

closed the gates like that. Did you..." Xiao Jinsheng’s suspicious stare locked on

interrogation,

disdain, sliced through Xiao Jinsheng. "Yes, I was the one who tricked the robots

lurking," Bai Yan added, her voice

Xiao Jinsheng was now furious. "I don’t have any grudges against you, do I? I even

saving?" Bai Yan said coldly. "You think I couldn’t find the shelter on my own? What, you expect me to grovel and thank you endlessly,

shaken to her

that the gentle and caring Bai Yan, whom she thought of so highly, could suddenly seem

agree that you returned to the shelter fifteen days ago, and it was your own decision to

away, keeping distance between them. Picking up a stone from the ground, she hurled it straight at Bai Yan. "To hell with you and

approaching shelter robot echoed nearby as Xiao Jinsheng threw the rock and bolted toward the

its target.

Jinsheng’s panic-stricken escape. A sinister

Memory replacement program

[System: Memory replacement successful.]

Host, the memory modification duration exceeded fifteen days. The functionality has

Memory editing cooldown set to 365

a year of cooldown? Totally worth it," Bai Yan murmured, her grin widening as

Yan had never planned on letting Xiao Jinsheng

not sounded emergency alarms at her absence—cross-checking the Star Map for proof she was alive after the

robots not reached out, commanding Bai Yan to ensure her safety, she would have killed

robot hurried toward them, rousing the

fluttered open, meeting the robot’s

Why did you

fragments of memory. "I... didn’t notice the bulletin. Thought we still had until six in the evening... Just snuck

The Mist

nearby... I guess I

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