Chapter 1141: Chapter 76: The Illusory Song of the Cyber Ghost (Part 6)_3
Qiluo panicked: “Gongsun Ce, you can’t change like that!”
“What about you?” Gongsun Ce poked her forehead, “We’re human, not machines. I still privately chat with you when things co up. If you’re hiding your troubles from , what do you take for? Before handling official duties, I’m your boyfriend first, understand?”
Qiluo curled up and whispered, “Oh…”
“Oh, you foolish child.” Gongsun Ce sighed, “Once you figure it out, talk it over with . How did you get cornered like this? How did a child as optimistic and forward-looking as you get pushed to the point of wanting to end it all?”
Qiluo was silent for a mont, slowly describing her experience. She spoke intermittently, pausing for a long ti before each segnt, letting Gongsun Ce understand her past… the past of “Qi Jingxuan”.
“I’m helpless, Gongsun Ce.” The girl said sadly, “In February, I could still et you because I was still dreaming about singing and having a unique life. But now I realize those things were never mine, they were Qi Jingxuan’s dreams and pursuits. I’m just an accidental information ghost, taking soone else’s fragnts as my own.”
Qiluo looked at her reflection in the water, the pink-haired girl looked entirely different from Qi Jingxuan, a stranger that made her heart ache.
“My old classmates can still recognize ? Can I approach my parents with this appearance and say I’m their daughter? Impossible, those two traditional middle-aged people would surely kick out, saying our daughter is quiet and elegant, not soone like you… Even my appearance is entirely different from Qi Jingxuan, everything about is fake, how do I keep going?”
Qiluo closed her eyes, desperately trying to maintain her sense of self, her comprehension once again becoming precarious. She thought surely Gongsun Ce’s clever mind could utter comforting words, but reality had already hit, no matter how comforting, what use would they be?
She heard a long sigh.
“Qiluo, you’re truly an idiot.”
“Huh?!
Qiluo stood agape, stunned, Gongsun Ce pinched her hard: “You’re stupid! You believe everything the enemy says?!”
“But he released the truth…”
“Haven’t I taught you how to deceive before?” Gongsun Ce raised his voice, “Tell , what’s the most practical kind of lie?”
“Nine parts true, one part false,” Qiluo answered instinctively, the words barely out when her mind buzzed. “But, but…” Qiluo was at a loss, “I can’t tell, I have no evidence. I looked for that day’s records but the data was destroyed in the accident…”
“Oh, child of mine.” Gongsun Ce wearily covered his forehead, “Even if it’s true, so what?”
Qiluo blinked: “Huh?”
“Oh, Qi Jingxuan shattered, absorbed, so Qi Jingxuan is dead?” Gongsun Ce countered, “Every ti an Elental Superpower User uses their power, they atomize and reassemble, are they dead? Kardesia often makes her head vanish, is she dead?”
—— Qiluo was speechless.
Gongsun Ce adjusted his glasses: “When I was reborn using Nirvana Fla, I was shattered, bits burnt everywhere. Do you think I’m dead now? Is this Gongsun Ce Version Two speaking?”
Qiluo was puzzled: “Uh… no… definitely not dead!”
“You understand that, why can’t you apply it to yourself?” Gongsun Ce poked her chest repeatedly, “I’ll tell you why, it’s because here!”
Qiluo was startled: “This has to do with bust size?”
Gongsun Ce pinched her hard: “It’s the heart! You’re not an Impermanence Law Enforcer with Spirit Light but you have a heart, as long as your heart isn’t dead, you can’t die!”
“Is it true?”
Gongsun Ce softened his voice: “At most you’re experiencing episodic mory loss, but it doesn’t affect your self. Have you heard speak of Situ Yi’s maneuver before? That guy erased all his mories, leaving only Spirit Light, later overlaying them when needed. The maneuver was crazy but he truly wasn’t dead, because his Spirit Light remained. You too, you’ve never died, just lost mories temporarily, you are the real you.”
“Oh…”
A once illusory body solidified gradually, the silent Qiluo seed to return to her normal state. She blinked and smiled: “I understand, Gongsun Ce…”
“You understand nothing. You’re still trying to fool , you haven’t really co to terms with it.” Gongsun Ce smirked, “Use your Superpower.”
Qiluo looked bewildered, Gongsun Ce coldly chuckled: “Still struggling with authenticity? Wondering if you have the original heart? I’ll tell you the best way, Superpowers stem from your heart, no clone or copy can create that. As long as you can use your Doppelgänger, you’re still Qi Jingxuan, still Xingli.”
Qiluo’s expression turned intensely anxious, she imdiately rejected the notion: “I can’t! My information ability appeared by chance, if I use it, the ability might disappear. The enemy fears my information ability, that’s why they’re targeting ; trying to use it is falling into their trap!”
“Falling into a trap then.” Gongsun Ce shrugged nonchalantly, “I love you, not your information ability.”
“I might turn into a plain black-haired, straight-haired girl again!” Qiluo protested, shaking his shoulders, “Similar to Qin Qianbai or Shiyu Ling, a woman without unique traits… maybe even turning oddly, like into an old woman or a middle-aged matron!”
“I love you in any form.” Gongsun Ce patted the girl’s smooth shoulder, “Use it.”
“But what if the ability does disappear?” Qiluo was dizzy, “Projects and security at the Celestial Capital will suffer damage, Alandia’s plans will encounter trouble. Our information security won’t be assured, we can’t take that risk!”
Gongsun Ce rubbed his temples, tirelessly reiterating: “Hurry up and use it.”
Qiluo, furious, stood up: “Gongsun Ce how can you lack a sense of the bigger picture! You can’t rely on emotions——”
Gongsun Ce glanced at the girl’s form and cheekily whistled: “Zero!”
“What?” Shiyu Ling’s voice ca from outside.
“Give Qiluo a command, have her use her Superpower.”
“Stop it, Gongsun Ce!” Qiluo scread, “Shiyu Ling don’t obey, you hear !”
Shiyu Ling responded with the sa frivolousness as Gongsun Ce: “Qiluo, use your Superpower~”
A daffodil blood in the bathroom, Qiluo scread nervously and fearfully, desperately praying the ability wouldn’t activate, but the familiar feeling resurfaced.
With a soft pop, pink smoke filled the bathroom, the warm bathwater splashed out, soaking the floor. In Gongsun Ce’s arms appeared another unclothed girl, her figure proportional, face innocent, her black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, slipping into the little remaining water.
Gongsun Ce couldn’t stop laughing, the two girls surveyed their surroundings simultaneously, their expressions identical.
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
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